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Microsoft Follies, again

If you're looking for trouble in Redmond, here are a couple more news items to fuel your schadenfreude:

• Closing the Door to Microsoft Vista is a Business Week piece on the problem facing many big business who don't see much point in upgrading to Vista from XP--and who are planning to wait until Microsoft releases Windows 7 (Vista's soon-to-be long-awaited successor). With that worthy package "due in 2010 or 2011", enterprises that choose to sit out Vista just have to wait another four or five years to upgrade. (And yes, I know the math is off.)


• It's not just corporate buyers who are thinking twice (or more) about Vista. Here's a PC World Business Center report that explains the reasons Coders Tell Why They're Avoiding Vista. Apparently, the new features in Vista really aren't compelling to software consumers, and with so many users hesitating over the upgrade, there's not much point to building Vista-only apps (see above).


• Here's a nice little summary about Microsoft's responses to the Vista blahs, from ArsTechnica: Microsoft: "There is no need to wait for Windows 7". From the article: "Microsoft's argument focuses on the fact that Windows 7 will be much closer to Vista than Vista is to XP, and therefore it makes sense for businesses to ease up the transition process for themselves by moving to Vista first." What? Go through the trouble of a dubious, disruptive and expensive upgrade now, so you can repeat the process in just a couple of years? And those total cost of ownership numbers seem kind of iffy to me, too, especially since they don't seem to include the cost of the upgrade itself.

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