That this was somehow allowed to be released to the press.
http://www.crn.com/software/218600247;jsessionid=AILSRQY0WJV2CQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN
Initially seen via slashdot.org at:
http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/24/1615240
From the comments there was a fairly artistic wording:
(holding the empty remains of a Vista Ultimate package)
Alas, poor Vista! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent eye candy: he hath booted me on his disks a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rims at it. Here hung those dialog boxes that I have clicked I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your MP3s? your flashes of BSOD, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to Windows 7’s chamber, and tell her, let her Photoshop an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
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My personal take on this, people might look back fondly at Windows 3.1, noone wants it back. The same applies to Win95, and Win98. People still look back fondly enough on WinXP they use it (I’ve tried Vista, I would never again use it). People looked back fondly on Win95, Win98, and arguabley (given its current use by many [myself included]) WinXP. They do so because they were better than what came before them. I still consider WinXP the apex of the modern desktop computing environment (Win2K for enterprise networks). Unless an SP comes that greatly enhances Vista, noone will look at it much better than WinME (which I for one am glad came to a quick death). I sincerely hope Windows 7 becomes better, but for a Microsoft executive to say ”I think people will look back on Vista after the Windows 7 release and realize that there were actually a bunch of good things there, So it’ll actually be interesting to see in two years what the perception is of Vista.” is just absurd. If people look back thinking Vista did anything good (I for one don’t think there was a single improvement over XP or Win2K) it will only be because Windows 7 lacks it, or worse is just substantially more unusable, in which case, I hope they don’t decline too much more, they might not survive so many failures and Microsoft has been my favorite corporation since childhood, I will be sad to see them go. The fact someone didn’t censor this guy is just outright bad PR.
