Microsoft blues

摘要

It is always fun to watch the mighty fall. It is even better when they try to break their fall with corporate waffle. This week Microsoft said it was rethinking "key aspects" of its new operating system, Windows 8. But then it began to obfuscate. A Microsoft executive insisted that "customer satisfaction" with the new offering "is strong" while also conceding that "the learning curve is definitely real". (Translation: customers are tearing out their hair and scattering it on the keyboard.