When too much is too much

MS-Watch | at | by Mike

Advice to Microsoft: Please pay more attention to customers' needs in the here and now rather than sometime in the future.

Yesterday, some chosen few got word they had been selected for the Windows Early Feedback program, over at Microsoft Connect. While the few offer advice about the future, judging from my inbox, the many have a whole lot more to say about the present.

Also yesterday, I invited users of Windows Vista "gold" code to tell Microsoft Watch what they thought about the software. Response has been quite good, with lots of people giving the operating system a thumbs up as a product, but many also giving it a thumbs down for experience. Applications or device driver incompatibilities are the most common problems in the present. Their concern is deploying Vista now, not some other Windows some day in the future.