Ballmer Blames Pirates for Vista’s Poor Showing?

According to Nick Farrell, Steve Ballmer is crediting software pirates for at least some of the limpness of Vista’s sales activity. Nick doesn’t have all the details in his post, so one can’t really judge for oneself. But I was struck by the odd juxtaposition between this post and PC World’s online cover story today, “The Most Annoying Things About Windows Vista”, which begins with a piece explaining why there’s just no good reason to buy the most crippled version of Vista.