I feel the company has become so large in staff numbers that they have lost the plot and now concentrate more on marketing than the product to gain revenue at the expense of the end user. It is the Tail wagging the dog syndrome. They did not appear to learn from their Vista experience and still use their customers as quality control. Windows 7 certainly has mainy failings that should have been sorted prior to release. Windows 8 looks quite infantile and designed by inhouse moronic gamers who know little else in this world relating to industry and business.
There has been massive progress in the computer hardware industry,
Wake up Microsoft you are not in the fashion industry