[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Huge thread about this at Slashdot today:

Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/1746211

PDF file available from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/library/vistaone3046.pdf

From page 6 of the PDF:

From: Jim Allchin
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2006 8:15 AM

We really botched this. I was not involved in this decision and I will support it because I trust you thinking through the logic.

BUT, you guys have to do a better job with our customers that [sic] was shown here.

This was especially true because you put me out on limb [sic] making a commitment. This is not ok.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Pathetic...