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Please, enough with the subjective anti-Vista articles. This isn't slashdot.

I disagree for the following reasons:

1. It seems that this article was written especially for OSNews, the kind of stuff they actively solicit. You are perfectly free to "wow" OSNews with your Vista experience.

2. Any survey of several weeks or more of the articles on OSNews might show bias, but at least not against Microsoft in general.

3. A balance of positive and negative is only that, just a balance but not necessarily a fair reflection of reality at all. What good is such a balance with Enron or your favorite charity? Either "balanced" case likely distorts the essential character of the topic in order to achieve some false sense of balance. Thus, if Vista is negative on the whole, more anti-Vista articles are perfectly natural.

4. Slashdot indeed has problems, but it is not at all clear that the editors oppose Vista all that much, at least without good reason. Do note that both sites rely on submissions. Moreover, last time I checked, one of their advertisers was indeed Microsoft.

5. Of course with any article you are perfectly free to tear it apart. Have at it!

6. Wake me up when these skeptical articles taken together have a tiny fraction of the influence of the half BILLION dollar marketing budget to promote Vista.

Edited 2007-02-15 19:26