Microsoft touching up Windows 8 to address gripes

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63. What I expect is a product my customers can use and trust.

NT was the last platform delivered which came close to that definition. It is our standing policy that no MS product will be purchased until it has been in use for at least 6 months. For Operating Systems the period of 1 year post release is required.

I am not complaining about ongoing fine tuning. I am talking about major flaws and incompatibility problems in a product sold to clients with industrial level investment in hardware and infrastructure.

To those of us in the field who must make the thing work as our customers need MS has far too often promised much and seldom delivered on time or in the quality required. I recognize that the software engineers have no control over the sales force and what it promises. However the track record of MS is perennially one of sell big and deliver, eventually, a product which at most is 2/3 of what is required.