Vista from the top
Microsoft's new OS Vista is coming out this summer and some of the release details have already been leaked to the press. They will have six core offerings of their product for various flavors of home, small business and enterprise users.
Know what? I could care less.
I remember the days when they would have a worldwide celebration of new OS releases, booking huge venues for the "party", doing 24x7 publicity tours. A new Microsoft release was like a U2 tour. Bigger.
So why is news of a new release so boring?
Several reasons:
1) We don't need it unless they force us to upgrade. The only thing that we want from Microsoft at this point is a more secure platform that doesn't patching every week. They say that this one is more secure. Sight unseeen, I think that they lie.
2) We don't expect the company to be innovative. When a Microsoft product does something interesting, it's not cool because you've never seen it before, it's because it's Microsoft. It's like watching a cat use a toilet.
3) Somehow, we just know that Vista will ooze problems like a software leper. It's happened before and it will happen again.
Lastly, I don't care because I already switched to Macintosh.
Posted on February 27, 2006
