If anything, I think this is a sure sign that Tom's Hardware has gone so downhill I'm not sure I can rely on you guys for information anymore. This article is full of editorial garbage and I for one won't stand for it. Your logic is poor and your conjectures are irritating me. Obviously the system was geared toward the consumer. Who the hell are they making the system for? Are they making it for themselves, or for consumers who would conceivably buy it? The truth, with both Vista and the 360 is that there were many parts that had to come together and there just wasn't enough time. In Vista's case, as much as people buy into the pro-XP propaganda garbage because columnists like you say so, the truth is a kernel upgrade was badly needed and Vista has a much better core than XP. In fact I hate XP because it treats you like you're stupid (you couldn't possibly know how to delete those icons off your desktop, so we'll run a wizard and do it for you!) and feels like a bloated version of 2000, which is what people are saying of Vista. The problem is, third party developers dragged their asses and multiple important portions of the OS didn't function properly. Once everybody got their ducks in a row and SP1 was released, everything became just fucking ducky. Oh and everyone seems to forget that most BSoD's are driver problems on the developer's end, not Microsoft's. But let's all be ULTRA AWESOME and show how smart we are by bashing Microsoft LOL BSOD HAHAHAHA!! In the case of the 360, several of the parts were new and the development schedule just didn't work out like it should have. Microsoft had to rush out the console to try and beat out the PS3 and Wii for the next gen, and it turns out the idea served them very well and has them a number 2 spot instead of number 3. The PS3's slow start vs. the 360's fast start are a major reason for Microsoft being 2nd in the race. And am I the only one who remembers that developers were still working on Alpha kits of the 360 on the August before system launch? Or has everyone else gone mad?
Journalism as a whole has gone so badly downhill it's embarrassing. I'm glad I'm not a part of it like I almost decided to be. From a Boston columnist calling the Cardinals frauds because he didn't think they should be in the superbowl to all the neoliberal and neoconservative columnists to this editorial shit posing as news, it's a joke. How about you keep some integrity so you can sleep at night, and stick to reporting facts and drawing as little conjectures from that as you can, unless you can at least substantiate it with an argument that's not questionable at best.
Jesus, this garbage makes my blood boil so badly I envy those that have the lack of ethics required for a DDoS on your servers. Fix your reporting now, not for my sake, or for the sake of your advertising revenue (almost nobody in the community takes you seriously anymore it seems), do it for your own sake.
Also, I thought I'd mention that I have a long history with Microsoft products and services, both positive and negative, and I don't particularly care for Microsoft one way or the other. I've also had an Xbox 360 unit fail on me during the week between Christmas and New Year's Day. But I won't let that cloud my judgment as to Microsoft's direction and reasoning behind what they're doing. I agree there is a problem with having this many errors, but Microsoft has been working to correct the problem and has spent millions of dollars to extend warranties by three years. Not that you'd mention that.
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