Business and enterprise software, and other applications that help a business run

On the one hand, the Microsoft public relations machine continues to turn out reams of “justifications” for why Vista is perfect. On the other hand, the Microsoft marketing legions continue to use monopolistic, strong-arm strategies and tactics worldwide to sell everyone on the planet at least one copy. On the gripping hand (thanks for that to Larry Niven), Vista continues to be full of errors of a fairly basic nature.

The latest fix of this purportedly perfect paragon of an operating is one which will finally, after a couple of months of errors for millions, allow users to run large applications such as Excel and Windows Media Player without errors. Given that these are both applications made by Microsoft, one could have reasonably expected these problems to be caught during testing, but Microsoft quality assurance is not much better, apparently, than the quality of their software.

I do not understand why people will believe the advertising, and cave in to the pressure to buy, when the product has been proven, by millions of people over years of time, to be buggy and unreliable. I suppose the only answer is that most people are sheep, completely trained by the advertising organs of major corporations to accept whatever sort of crap they produce.

I cannot believe so many people are so easily duped.