Dear friends, it has started.

The wave of press coverage and blogging pundits trying to dismiss Vista SP1:

You can’t trust Vista SP1.

You have no idea what SP1 is going to do.

We’re going to ignore it until SP2.

So far very little has been said about SP1.

I am not going to link to the unsubstantiated trash above just to drive traffic to them, but it is becoming apparent that Vista’s shortcomings have been a goldmine for the journalist hacks and Adsense whores trying to milk every ounce of pain, suffering, blood and tears that the Vista eXPerience has been.

Now that Microsoft has addressed the outstanding issues, now that the performance has been boosted up to 50%, that 64bit support has been firmed up, that application compatibility has been improved, that reliability, performance, power consumption, security, desktop and management and a ton of other things have been enhanced and fixed, what is left for the pessimists to cling on?

Nothing bad has been said yet. So, if there is no negative coverage of SP1, what in the world will drive traffic to my site? Uh oh. Ok, how about a cover story about how the public confidence in Microsoft has been eroded and we ought to just ignore the SP1 changes and hopefully ride the wave of any tiny complaints all the way to the speculation over Windows 7? Back to the fear machine.

Seriously folks, if you want to complain about Vista at least substantiate it with something other than sap stories of how you can’t trust Microsoft that has fixed all the stuff you’re complaining about.

In the meantime Steve……….. Can you hire a marketing agency?

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