Microsoft Getting Tetchy About Vista Bashing

Kevin Maney writes, at least until his laptop with Vista freezes up: Microsoft has HAD ENOUGH! It's the LAST STRAW, baby! One more insult of Vista -- one more! Bam! Zoom! To the MOON, Alice!

So, what happened: Forrester Research, those staid analysts in suits up in Cambridge, Mass., issued a report saying that corporate customers are rejecting Vista and maybe oughta think about skipping it altogether and waiting for Windows 7. (What, like there's a lot of faith that Windows 7 will be a coding masterpiece?)

So Microsoft issued a sharp retort, saying Forrester "appears to be more focused on making sensationalist statements, rather than offering a thoughtful industry perspective." Oo. Ouch. In analyst-land, that's like saying, "Yo' momma, buddy!"

This is all part of Microsoft's increasingly high-pitched defense of Vista. In the company's thinking, the problem is actually US, not THEM. Here's what Todd Bishop of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports:

Microsoft also talked about its efforts to improve the public perception of Windows Vista. Bill Veghte, a senior vice president for Windows and online services, showed a video in which Windows XP users who identified themselves as predisposed to dislike Vista were shown a program called "Mojave," described as Microsoft's next operating system. After they declared themselves impressed, Microsoft revealed to them that the program was, in fact, Windows Vista.

"That's our opportunity," Veghte said. "Perception versus reality."

So don't forget that. When Vista clogs your computer's memory and runs as slow as Meat Loaf in bunny slippers, you just have a bad attitude. And when Vista brings on the blue screen of death, obviously YOU did something wrong, you ungrateful flyspeck of a user.

Vista. Good stuff.