Microsoft Has Spent Five Years And $5 Billion Not Shipping Windows Vista

Microsoft's reliance on a revenue stream tied predominantly to version releases for a infusion of cash has tied their hands in the the emergent marketplace typified by open source, most obviously contrasted with OSS Release Early, Release Often motto.

Cringely annouces the doom, and possible way to save Microsoft.

I know that with a stock flatlining like MSFT has been, it's either a time to buy in, or a time to look elsewhere for investors.

PBS | I, Cringely . June 15, 2006 - Taking One for the Team

Microsoft has spent five years and $5 billion NOT shipping Windows Vista. This reflects a company deliberately built in the image of its founder, Bill Gates -- a single-tasking, technically obsolete executive with no checks or balances whatsoever who fills the back seat of his car with fast food wrappers. So Bill has to go, because as an icon, he's great, but as a manager, he sucks.