Mixed Message

I just received a webinar invite from Ziff Davis entitled "Can You Be Safe Without Vista?"

It's designed to promote the additional security features that the Vista operating system provides, but I'm not certain that's the message they are sending.

The problem is that the webinar is co-sponsored by Microsoft.

So, let me get this straight.

The very people who wrote the operating system you're likely still running (XP, for most of us) are telling their customers that our legacy operating systems, also written by Microsoft, aren't secure.

Imagine if GM sold you a crappy car, then invited you to an open house where they spoke about why you needed to purchase the newer model because the old one was so unsafe?

You wouldn't expect GM to close many sales.

Microsoft shouldn't either.