When a highly anticipated
tech product is released to the public with undisclosed major flaws creating generally overblown
PR mayhem, including but not limited to:
Tech blogger rants and link-baiting; fanboy tears, anguish, disbelief and excuses; impotent manufacturer patches and/or fixes; repeated BP-ish responses from corporate executives; snarky comments enclosed in competitor's advertisements; open letters from populist-whore
politicians; angry rants from Whoopi Goldberg; some sort of obligatory but thoughtless comment from Steve Wozniak. Named for the the Microsoft Product Windows Vista.
The Apple iPhone 4 was regarded as the greatest
smartphone ever, or at least until it was discovered that the antennae
system was slightly
less capable than Abe Vigoda's unmedicated penis and subsequently underwent a complete and public Vistafication.