Some of the company’s resellers think Microsoft’s own “Vista bashing” is the most painful of it all. These businesses want
In the past month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has referred to Vista as “a work in progress” and hinted that Microsoft might extend the June 30 deadline for Windows XP. Earlier this month at the RSA conference in San Francisco, David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft, said the User Account Control feature in Vista was designed “to annoy users.”
Many of Microsoft’s channel feel they have been working hard to move people beyond their dislike for the product and are not helped by Microsoft’s own admissions. Of course, not all resellers feel this way. Some are capitalizing on the popularity of Vista bashing. Dell, for one, has begun advertising that it will continue to sell XP after the June 30 cutoff date.
When is it “bashing” and when are such statements – even by Microsoft officials — an honest admission of a product that has not met with much customer satisfaction?
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