Microsoft. Oh, Microsoft…
I couldn’t help this one. Fake Steve pointed out this CNET piece with Microsoft talking about the first service pack for Vista. So I’m reading it and whatever, it’s kind of a basic piece, talking about SP1, Vista’s disappointing uptake so far, maybe SP1 will drive some corporate adoption - pretty much a boilerplate piece.
Then I get to this quote:
“Frankly, the world wasn’t 100 percent ready for Windows Vista,” Corporate Vice President Mike Sievert said in an interview at Microsoft’s recent partner conference in Denver. “That has changed in a very material way in the past six months.”
Ah, hah! It is the world’s fault that Vista hasn’t done well. It wasn’t that there were no compelling reasons to upgrade to it, that many “vista ready” computers couldn’t handle it, it lacked drivers and was even not compatible with some key Microsoft products… no… the world simply wasn’t ready for it. Now the world is ready. It has nothing to do with SP1 hopefully fixing these problems, nope - it’s just that when Vista first came out, we had a headache, kinda sorta just weren’t in the mood, no real reason, you know how irrational the world is. Now we’ve had a chance to get to know Vista and now we’re ready to make the move. Uh, right. Keep on keepin’ on Microsoft, blame everyone but yourselves.
