Microsoft is finally about to push out a counter-campaign to combat the "Vista sucks" meme - ZDNet has a nice story on it. I think there are enormous difficulties here though, in two main areas:

• Any campaign risks reinforcing the negative by giving it credence
• They waited long enough that the first impression of Vista stuck (regardless of what's happened since)

I don't envy them in this task. I've got friends using Vista now who tell me it's a decent system, not at all like the meme - the trouble is, MS let the stench linger too long.

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