What is your opinion?

Vista - Arrogance & Stupidity :
http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit043.html

Microsoft vs. Apple: Is Vista the Answer in the Era of Consumer Computing?:
http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2006/12/microsoft_vs_ap.html

Vista and the Altair (MS lost it’s way):
The true mission driving the company [Microsoft] in 2006? "Seek out revenue growth wherever we can find it."

http://davidbau.com/archives/2006/03/25/vista_and_the_altair.html

Vista’s DMR mistake, and the decline of microsoft:

“Vista, a platform that is designed at it’s very core to be anti-user. With Vista, users are the enemy.”

http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/02/20/vistas-drm-mistake-and-the-decline-of-microsoft-windows/


Vista’s DRM Is Reason Enough Not to Upgrade:

http://gracefulflavor.net/2007/02/13/vistas-drm-is-reason-enough-not-to-upgrade/

Ballmer blames pirates for poor Vista sales:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37721

Ballmer hints at tougher Vista antipiracy crackdown:

http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;7680622;fp;16;fpid;1

Various pc user comments on Ballmer/Vista/DRM:

http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Ballmer_Blames_Pirates_for_Poor_Vista_Sales

Microsoft Vista DRM subverted (cracked):

http://www.dvguru.com/2007/01/30/microsoft-vista-drm-subverted/

Microsoft spins DRM tale in 'blog' :

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37091


Microsoft spent Billions of dollars and used thousands of programmers to create Vista/DRM, taking 5 years. And it has so far not impressed too many people.

It’s a pity they couldn’t spend just 10 or 20 million a year to keep Foxpro development going. (That would have at least pleased thousands of Foxpro programmers, and millions of users of Foxpro applications.)

And with .NET it’s all or nothing, with Billions being spent there too. And still, they had to rob the tiny Foxteam of it’s last remaining developers, because even with the billions they spent, they could not find guys that knew much about data handling.