Comments on: Microsoft aims to get partners Vista-ready

It adds two programs to support companies that make products that tie into its upcoming Windows Vista and Office 2007 updates.

[ppgreat]

Must be nice...

... to have all the cash in the world to push out crap via your
monopolistic pipeline.

CNET, among other reviewers, say Vista isn't really ready for
prime time. I've used both RC1 and RC2, along with Office 2007,
and am amazed at how it has managed to take the most
annoying parts of previous OSes, add a few new ones, and
theme it out in an attempt to play catch up to OS X.

Lipstick on a pig, indeed!

If an IT person with any sense of decency would put the same
effort into moving away from MS 'solutions' as they do in trying
to upgrade them or maintain them, the enterprise would be a
much nicer place to work.

[slim-1]

Vista will be the biggest reason the masses switch to Linux, Mac & BSD

They are cutting their own throats with bulk, activation and lack of new features.

In short Microsoft has made themselves obsolete. This worked before better alternatives. It's a bad idea now.

I swiched my business from Windows to Ubuntu Linux and the move was great.

[Ryo Hazuki]

Must be sad...

...to pass the time accusing Microsoft of being monopolistic for whatever they do. A man called Robert Vamosi (not the site which is only right when criticising Microsoft - CNET) said Windows Vista is not ready for prime-time and based almost all of that statement with the false argument that Microsoft dropped the Software Compatibility tool, when it is still there has it always has been. If you did use Vista RC1, RC2 and Office (which any intelligent person can clearly see you didn't) and you think that bad about them then those comments go against every single review of those products I've read so far, which is very curious. I think things like securing the core part of an OS by blocking free direct access to dll's is not properly what I'd call lipstick on a pig, and if it is, well it must be a very well loved pig. If an IT person without the slightest knowledge of his field would put the same effort into moving away from Microsoft's solutions as they do upgrading them or mantaining them, as you say, the enterprise would maybe be a much nicer place to work for YOU, but around 10 years behind and spending more money.