Michael Knorr, InfoWorld:
Microsoft cannot afford another Vista – and Windows 8 promises to be just that sort of debacle. Moreover, it seems as if internal politics may be overwhelming Microsoft’s ability to execute.
What does that say to you? To me and perhaps to many others, it says: I’m getting off this train at the next stop.
It’s starting to look like Microsoft is going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with Windows 8. What a shame.
Everything has pointed to the Metro UI being a game-changing paradigm shift in computing. Unfortunately, Microsoft is beholden to its former self - shoehorning potentially great stuff into legacy elements.
The problem is that Microsoft doesn’t have the balls to piss off incumbent customers in the name of progress. Looks like they still haven’t learned from Apple’s decade of dominance.