Steve Berry

UK

Infrastructure Architect

Most people have known for a while that Vista will come in numerous various versions/guises.

Can we blame MS for that ?

Yes - for making the landscape way too complex.
No - from an MS strategic business perspective, what they're doing is really no different to what they've done before - just the scale is becoming larger.

Imagine the Vista scenario extended to apps like Exchange / SMS / Office etc... and things just become laughable.

What does seem apparent is MS are locked into a vicious cycle of product development / quick release times where no-one will effectively be able to keep up. The more they do it, the more most average people/comsumers really couldn't care less, except of course for MS that is.

Then again MS have never really been about looking after "Mr Average" have they ?