What the Toronto Malple Leafs and Microsoft have in common

Why is that Microsoft insists on holding its customers (both personal home computing and business users) hostage?

With the recent release of Windows 7.0 O/S plagued with problems why can't they make something that works, efficiently.  It doesn't need to incorporate all the bells and whistles but work on what it is capable of doing.  Personal users and business users have roughly the same type of needs however, there are different feature sets we require.   With all the posted comments for support and most still not resolved it makes you wonder whyt corporations and users are willing to jump so quickly into unproven technology. 

The security patches and updates are far too frequent and become a part-time job to manage even if automatic updates are turned on.  Endless bugs and sometimes simple tasks cannot be handled efficiently or is made too complicated.  As a business user the MAC strategy of desktops Powerbooks and a working secure O/S is looking very attractive. 

Although MAC is far more expensive more organizations are starting to investigate this strategy and are looking for security and stability.  A working O/S with fewer problems tighter security and and easier interface to use, what's  not to like ?

As more SaaS models come on the market for applications, platforms and the like will users move away from MS to LINUX, Ubuntu, Mac etc. in droves.  MS pushes beta quality yet consumers are still willing to accept a less than standard product.  Is just extremely good marketing?  As much as I am a die hard leafs fan, The Toronto Maple Leafs are terrible team.  They have always had BAD scouting, sometimes better than mediocre management but cannot put the pieces. together.  Smaller market teams are doing it better by winning and at least contending. 

If corporate sponsorship dries up and fans refuse to support a losing product will that spur change, can the same be said for Microsoft users ?   With another hockey team in town does other options where consumers can spend their frighten them, it should. 

In the computer world is this just a case of non-exposure by other competent operating system vendors are not getting their fair kick at the can by having a lack of marketing budget on products that work ?   Will lack of support from consumers actually make a difference to MS? 

Would love to hear the comments on this.