yes but new coke was horrible just like Vista. just new packaging on a bad product.
[After all, who would ever want Coke Classic when New Coke is so much better?]
That, my friend is sarcasm.
If MSFT had spent five years studying things like the Mach kernel instead of contemplating how to add gratuitous eye-candy, they might have been able to address their competition instead of sticking their heads in the sand and prtetending they hae none.
I look forward to the day Apple decides to take on Enterprise in addition to the home and professional markets.
Consumers? MS has two lists - in SELL TO - Consumers are third or 4th on the list - the other list?
LISTEN TO:
Consumers might be about 400th - right before the Linux Community.
MS cares about what consumers think as Bill Gates might care about buying a comb. You just have to look at the action or more appropriately inaction.
Hey you, you have a product with 114,000 intrusions ...
Okay, we'll get right on it.
2 years later - for $99 a year, we'll sell you something to patch the hole in our original product.
Still using Win 98, Me, NT, 2000? Don't care. We're closing the books - buy new software.
Vista - we shipped it - oh, there are no drivers for printers, scanners or peripherals? Or graphic cards? Not our dept. You should have bought the super duper premium double Vista Vista Grande.
Jeff,
Bill Gates - comb - LOL
Thanx
BTW, the 'Super Duper Premium Double Vista Vista Grande' — does that come with a biscotti, or Timbits? 
I had made the observation myself that Vista was turning out to be like New Coke. So I searched to see if others were thinking the same thing.
I write windows software for a small company. Our support department has decided that the word Vista should be used as a swear word. It causes more problems and gives our users nothing.
One customer thinks we should refuse to support Vista.
I wish Microsoft would realize that people by computers to use applications to get their work done. They don't by computers for the OS. They don't want the OS to give them an "experience".
I have collected a long wish list of features our clients want added to our software. Guess what? Vista will do nothing to help us get those features to users. It will cause me to waste time helping support it. Users are going to get less features from us because of that wasted time.
Note to Microsoft: Its the applications, stupid.
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