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Steve Ballmer Shovels it on Thick - Beautiful Technobust

Normally, I wouldn't bother to comment on an already well "dugg" story on Digg.com, but I just couldn't resist this one.

Apparently Steve Ballmer (the "other" "voice" of Microsoft) issued a statement blaming poor sales of Windows Vista on computer pirates, the second most vilified group of computer users (right behind the ubiquitous catchall of "hackers" and "terrorists"*).

Anyhow, things being as they are, Digg.com users aren't fooled by Ballmer's line of B.S. in the slightest, which makes the comments in the above article absolutely priceless.

Here's my tip of the day for Microsoft: Visit the above site, make a big list of every single issue that has been mentioned by commentors and fix them, now.

Here's my tip of the day for all other O/S developers: Visit the above site, make a big list of every single issue that has been mentioned by commentors and for the love of a duck, don't make the same mistakes! In fact, if you can avoid these mistakes, you'll probably make more money than Sir Bill himself.

*Which brings to mind the old saying of "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter", which, in the case of factions that actually do pirate software, especially Vista, may in fact be just that. As they allow the general public to find out just how horrible software like Vista is before we actually give our hard earned gold over to the Evil Sheriff of Microsoft.

Honestly, all Microsoft cares about is selling you the software, after that, they don't give a flying fig whether it actually functions or not. You've opened the box, you can't take it back and get a refund, they've made their money and now they can add another notch to artificially skewed "installed user base numbers". Why else would they shuffle customer support calls to call centres on the other side of the world where you don't have a snowball's chance in the Mojave's of actually communicating with tech support personal?

Posted by Dylon on February 19, 2007 1:03 PM | Permalink

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