Mea culpa from Microsoft after the storm

"We're going to tell our story, our story, the real Windows Vista story" said Brad Brooks, corporate vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing, during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008, held in Houston last week. And he went on to say "we're drawing a line right here on this stage that we're going to do things differently going forward." He was referring to how Microsoft has been straightening things up after the IT kerfuffle that followed when the initial version of Vista failed to deliver (before the advent of SP1, the redeemer). "We had an ambitious plan. We made some significant investments around security in this product," he said "and you know what, those investments, they broke some things. They broke a lot of things. We know that. And we know it caused you a lot of pain in front of your customers, in front of our customers." Brooks also introduced the new Windows Vista Compatibility Center a comprehensive Web site to see all of the devices and all the applications that are compatible with Windows Vista. Read his complete remarks. I find this PR move commendable (better late than never). Yes, I believe the storm is over. Vista is and will be inevitable.