Bill Gates essentially admitted recently that Windows Vista sucks. He even laughingly joked about it:

In a fairly frank interview with Gizmodo, Gates was asked if he thought there any Microsoft product that “could have had more polish.”

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Instead Gates replid: “Ask me after we have shipped the next version of Windows”.

The implication is fairly obvious. Bill thinks that Vista could have had more polish when it hit the shops. He can’t say so now because that would undermine Vista’s already flagging sales.

And here is the video so you can see for yourself.

I’ve written a number of articles about how badly I think Windows Vista sucks. I had warned about it sucking even before it shipped. Microsoft did such a half-assed job, people all over the world are suffering because of it every day. I’m just glad I didn’t pay for it, because I’d have felt so much worse if I had. Especially when you see Gates laugh about it while you know you paid $400 for junk and him making huge profits from it.

And pay special attention to the fact that he can’t talk about how Vista sucks until “after we have shipped the next version of Windows.” In other words, he can’t talk about it now because otherwise nobody would want it. So he’s pretty OK with knowingly selling crap to everyone, and getting richer from it while joking about it on stage. This is even worse compared to when he said that he was against DRM and that DRM was bad for users, while failing to notice that most Microsoft software and hardware products shipping at the time included DRM. Products he was responsible for.

That’s Bill Gates for you, people!