Forbes: Microsoft Vista: Not "People Ready"

Forbes' Daniel Lyons was at the Microsoft"People Ready" event in New York last week.  He has a veryinteresting take.... No one mentioned the fact that in1997, Microsoft held a similar event in New York City to declare that IBM's"big iron" was dead, because Windows NT--remember Windows NT?--wasgoing to "scale up" and replace the mainframe. I wonder if Ballmerever feels like the guy in Groundhog Day, reliving the same press conference,over and over. I know I do.Oddly enough, some of the language ofthe Microsoft event was eerily similar to language about innovation inthe new huge advertisements that IBM started running a few days later innewspapers. Did Microsoft somehow get wind of the ads? Who knows. But theevent seemed thrown together to blunt the new ad campaign from IBM.Worst of all, I can't believe Microsoftactually held this big nonevent "event" only a few days beforeannouncing another screw-up in Vista. If Ballmer knew he was about to announcea delay and still had this event, he's crazy. If he didn't know Vista wasabout to slip again, then Microsoft is in worse shape than anyone realizes.Soit seems that Alan is not the only one to wonder, $500million and you need to steal our slogan?Link: Forbes:Microsoft Vista: Not "People Ready">