A business colleague asked me yesterday what I thought of Windows Vista. I said I hadn’t tried it myself, but that anecdotal accounts from the blogosphere were very negative indeed, particularly about the way it freezes up terminally if it suspects that your software might have been obtained in some irregular manner. He then told me of his problems with it, including lost data and generally poor performance.

Given how lousy it appears to be, why are we not seeing an aggressive advertising campaign from the producers of other operating systems to get people to switch?