Top ten excuses issued by Microsoft
for all the problems and complaints consumers have for Windows Vista

10. We wanted to show Apple what we felt about OS X.

9. It is after all called Windows VISTA -- Vas-In-State of-Tiredness-Alltime during the tests.

8. That's nothing, wait until Windows 7 comes out.

7. It was the perfect complement for all those multimedia gadgets that don't work properly under Windows XP.

6. We wanted to make a product that complemented the first Intel chips. (Remember the floating point divide error incident on Pentiums.)But ended up making just the opposite.

5. Let's see you try to rush a complicated product to the market in less than a year. 

4. It must be your hardware, our products don't contain bugs. (Yeah right -- a typical Technical Support response)

3. It's not our fault. People don't read the directions. (another Technical Support response)

2. We'd like to see Apple Computer and IBM copy our features. (and then Microsoft will sue them if they do.)

and the number one excuse provided by Microsoft:

1. We're Microsoft and we don't care.