Microsoft attempts to polish Vista turd

Microsoft is really taking the gloves off this time. ZDNet is reporting that it will spend $500 million to make a powerful statement to its hundreds of millions of customers,” Saul Hansell reports for The New York Times. “I imagine the statement would have to go something like this:”

Windows Vista isn’t really as bad as they say. Honest. Please don’t be mad at us. We promise our next operating system will be better. Pinky swear.

Hansell writes, “Those aren’t exactly the words they use, but it is certainly the tone of the ad that Microsoft has started running on its site… It shows a painting of a tall ship with the headline ‘At one point everyone thought the Earth was flat. Get the facts about Windows Vista.'”

Hansell writes, “[What] a dreadful place for Microsoft to be. It is fighting Google on one side and Apple on the other… Even if you are a big fan of Microsoft, consider which you would rather read about first: a something new from Google, Apple or Microsoft?”

“After spending $500 million, Microsoft might be able to convince people that Windows Vista is not awful,” Hansell writes. “But just because you can show the earth is not flat, doesn’t mean you will rule the new world.”

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Davis Machead” for the heads up.]

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