Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Dell, once the leader in OEM Personal Computers, will never recover their former glory, now that the open secret the world knew has been confirmed.

Dell sold faulty PCs for years, and they knew it.

Dell were among the many victims of the capacitor plague in the opening decade, but unlike many others, Dell went out of their way to hide it. Quoting Bill Snyder:

Stuff happens. People and companies make mistakes. If you've had a long-term relationship with a vendor, reaching for the divorce papers too quickly can be the wrong move.  

But what we've learned about Dell recently doesn't qualify as an understandable mistake. Only a rotten company sells defective computers and lies about it. How could anyone in IT or anyone buying a computer for personal use ever trust that company again?

Off topic, the same could be said for Apple regarding their handling of the iPhone 4 Grip Of Death, which was revealed by customers on launch day.

The problem is what thousands upon thousands of irate Dell customers have claimed all along: Dell have cut so many corners that they finally cut their bottom line.

Enjoy your future, Mr. Dell.  Enjoy being as forgotten as Compaq, Packard Bell, Digital Equipment Corporation, Sperry, and Remington-Rand.  At best a faded memory, and welcomed to the trash-heap of history.

If you are remembered, Mr. Dell, you'll be remembered as fondly as...  Well fancy that, I'm drawing a blank on companies killed by their own greed.