Re:Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an Abo...
by smacktoward on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @04:33PM
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This, exactly.
Vista is now my go-to example for when people managing platforms say "just break badly written applications, their incompetence is their problem, not ours." Microsoft took a staggering PR hit when all sorts of crappy, poorly-written applications broke under Vista, because their users all blamed Microsoft for it. People don't know their applications are crappy under the hood; all they know is that they used to work, and now they don't.
Vista is now my go-to example for when people managing platforms say "just break badly written applications, their incompetence is their problem, not ours." Microsoft took a staggering PR hit when all sorts of crappy, poorly-written applications broke under Vista, because their users all blamed Microsoft for it. People don't know their applications are crappy under the hood; all they know is that they used to work, and now they don't.