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[News] Poor Products (Not Just Corruption) Hurt Microsoft

Microsoft's meltdown

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| Forget your opinions about Microsoft. Ignore the industry politics,
| the legal manoeuvring and the arguments about innovation. The
| company has one core job to do ? produce competent products that
| do not hurt its customers.
| 
| It is not doing that job.
| 
| Take Microsoft's Live OneCare, an new online security suite
| designed to provide "all-in-one security and performance for
| your PC". Last month, we reported that it failed to protect
| Windows Vista against virus attack. This week, that it failed
| comparative testing so badly it may not even qualify for
| inclusion next time. So far, so bad. It's a young product.
| It may mature.
| 
| The latest report, though, is far more chilling. A bug has 
| surfaced which can, under some conditions, delete users'
| email stores. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| We'll say that again. Until Microsoft explains how this happened,
| it cannot be considered a reliable supplier. There is nothing the
| company can do or say that's worth a bean if it is incompetent to
| produce code. No company can survive a total meltdown of trust,
| and that is closer than Microsoft dares to think.
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http://opinion.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002208,39286244,00.htm


Related:

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| Wozniak: "Microsoft, Apple and AOL, they tend to turn out the
| crappiest products, you know, software-wise".
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http://inquirer.stanford.edu/2005/jstaffor/woz.html (link broken now)

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