To the others, please excuse this excursion off the topic.
There are fanbois and then there are lapdogs.
I see on the site you publicise in your sig that you are on MS's BizSpark program. I take my hat off to you for that - quite an achievement. But...
As I understand that program, you get a whole pile of stuff ( software, access en watookal ) from MS for free. The only other business I have encountered on it also received a nice fat pile of cash too. Did you get MS funding? All this provided not out of MS's altruism believe me - MS don't really do altruism. Rather, out of marketing, and possibly the hope that someone somewhere writes some killer app.
So, you have a small business that is effectively being funded ( in cash and/or kind ) by Microsoft, which you don't come clean on and then accuse me of spreading FUD.
"Yo, Fluffy!" ( Fluffy is my vicious killer Toy Pom ), "Bare them fangs girl, there's lapdogs about!"
PS. Vista was a stuffup of note. A pile of dogpoo is better than Vista. Chernobyl was better than Vista. Why? Because NOTHING is worse than Vista.
PPS. I'm glad you like Win8 - you must let Steve know - he'll be so happy somebody actually likes it.
Hmmm, I've never heard of a company getting funded my MS through the BizSpark. I get all my software for free for myself and employees, and servers. I also get some Azure hosting free, but it's not much more that enough to run a simple service so I've never used it in production.
I help MS out with some training and hackathons for students, but that is because I like helping out young people, MS doesn't pay me for that.
To be 100% clear, I have never received a single cent from Microsoft ever.
To be even clearer, Microsoft has given me software and a single Windows Phone (entry level). That is all.
By the agreement we have with Bizspark I could spend every waking second trashing MS on ever public platform there is, and I would still get my software. So no, I have no monetary/in-kind allegiance to them.
p.s. There was a single instance of work I did for MS years ago which I got publicity for. No money or hardware etc was exchanged. (just for full disclosure).
Yes, Vista was a crappy "attempt" at an OS. I hated ever second of it, and as far as I remember went back to XP until the beta of 7. I think even Windows ME may have been better than Vista
. My point was that it still sold. I always liked Fluffy the 3 headed dog from Harry Potter.
