Irony alert: top Microsoft execs burned by the crap called Vista

This is so effing funny. Mike has a laptop he says is now a $2,100 e-mail machine, as it lacks chips to run a full Vista. Jon finds out an upgrade from XP to Vista is missing drivers for his printer and other peripherals. And Steven tells Jon that’s a system-wide issue.

Who are these people?

Mike Nash (is) a Microsoft vice president who oversees Windows product management. And Jon, who is dismayed to learn that the drivers he needs don’t exist? That’s Jon A. Shirley, a Microsoft board member and former president and chief operating officer. And Steven, who reports that missing drivers are anything but exceptional, is in a good position to know: he’s Steven Sinofsky, the company’s senior vice president responsible for Windows.

You made your bed, Bill Gates-style, gentlemen. Now sleep in it.

And, your company is facing a class-action lawsuit on those “Windows Vista Capable” stickers slapped on laptops it turns out were actually $2,100 e-mail machines. I’m sure Mike Nash will make an excellent, if hostile, witness for the plaintiffs.