Erris's Journal: Acer CEO Pans Vista. Claims "Whole Industry is Disapponted"

Low sales has Acer and others up in arms:

Acer president Gianfranco Lanci today became the first major PC manufacturer to openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system. ... riddled with problems and gave users and businesses no reason to buy a new PC ...

"The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said. Despite the long wait between Windows XP and Vista, the latest operating system still lacks maturity, he said. "Stability is certainly a problem," he said.

Users are voting with their feet, Lanci said, so that the Vista launch has had the smallest impact on PC sales of any version of Windows in the history of PC manufacturing.

With the first service pack more than a year and half away, Vendors will have to embrace free software if they want to give users an upgrade that works.