Crumpled

If there is one thing that windows needs to learn from the mac os, it's that your customers will forgive you if you you force them out of reliance on legacy software support. so when Windows Vista is released maybe it won't seem like it's running on DOS. It seems that windows has elected to learn a lot more from mac os, including a whole bunch of user interface ideas.

Once again windows is going to copy mac os, but I bet it will be as convoluted than ever.

I ran Microsoft's tool to see if my computer was good enough for Windows Vista. Appereantly it takes 16gb to install, and my video card isn't quite good enough, and there aren't drivers for some of my hardware including my video input/output card (and I cant count on the manufacturer to write one.)

I don't think I'm going to buy it. If I'm going to switch operating systems, and I'm going to have to upgrade my hardware: Why not just buy a mac?

It's a pretty easy bet that the 5th version of OS X, which will come out around the time the first version of Windows Vista is released, will be way more stable and secure. Windws XP Pro, can't stay around forever. I'll have to upgrade my OS, and to do that I'll have to probably buy a new computer, and finally ditch the Pentium 2 that we have as our secondary home pc. (it's sometimes not fun to play WoW on a computer that doesn't quite meet the minimum system requirements) So when the time comes, we'll have a mac on our home network, maybe I'll save room on the mac to install windows. Hey microsoft, if you make me upgrade my hardware, it's the perfect time to switch. Pentium 2 will become a linux box, and my current linux box will go to the dump. I like having a lot of platforms on which to look at websites I make.

Here's an illustration of Microsoft's Style Problem:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5487302194049101890

Here's an illustration of Microsoft's Innovation Problem:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3469743121209807715