·· { Saturday, 31 May } ··

7 Deadly Sins≡

Gartenberg appears to have entirely missed that this is very much business-as-usual for Microsoft. Their bread-and-butter is entirely based on promising the future — yet continuously delivering the past — to a crowd that is, just like Gartenberg, suckered into believing the next release is “the answer”.

“All they’ve done is get the market thinking about the next version of Windows. I suspect there’s a lot of folks out there who made the decision this week to just skip Vista and wait for what’s next.”