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Paul Thurrott’s Windows Vista review

Paul Thurrott’s excellent review of Windows Vista.  Sounds like it’s everything we expected…

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_5308_05.asp

Having dealt with Microsoft for many years, I can say this much with certainty: The company is literally filled to the brim with some of the brightest, smartest, most insightful, and friendliest people I’ve ever met. Some of my best friends work at the company either directly or indirectly (in some cases doing PR work), and I’ve established long term friendly relationships with numerous people I’ve come into contact with specifically because of my job writing about technology. Despite these enviable assets, Microsoft has made some mind-numbing mistakes. It (illegally, as it turns out) artificially bundled its immature Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser so deeply into Windows in order to harm Netscape that it’s still paying the price for the decision—a full decade later—in the form of regular critical security flaws that have taken away time from developers that might have otherwise been spent innovating new features. The company itself has turned into that thing it most hated (read: IBM), an endlessly complex hierarchy of semi-autonomous middle managers and vice presidents of various levels and titles, many of whom can’t seem to make even the smallest of decisions. The company is too big and too slow to ship updates to its biggest products. It’s collapsing under its own weight.

Wow!  This is coming from one of the biggest MS supporters around.  Pretty heavy criticism.