So the news is now coming out: Windows Vista was merely a compromise system. The real breakthrough OS is coming out in 2009. You can read the article here.
Basically, Microsoft has now said that Vista doesn't have everything it wanted to put in, but they needed to get it out the door. This finally explains why they are spending 500 million dollars (US) on marketing the new system. They know it's mediocre. I really shouldn't care about this. I have my own system, which runs fine. I'm not planning to switch to Windows (ever). Yet I'm completely compelled by this story. Microsoft would be a total joke if they didn't rule the world.
The truth is, I don't want Apple to grow its marketshare too much. Maybe 10 percent would be good. That way, it would still be a cool niche product, and I would feel good about using it. If it were ubiquitous, the "cool factor" would wear off. Then we'd start having more people try to write viruses (so far, none in the wild), and life would generally start to suck, much as it already does for Windows users.
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Sanity Junction
I thought I would broach a topic that will probably crop up occasionally on Placeholder Text. I had planned to avoid it for a while, but I read something today that deserves mention. I'm going to talk about Bill Gates and Microsoft.
Let me give some background. I am a Mac user (I'm typing this on my 4-year-old iBook G3), but I hope that you will recognize that I am not a fanatic, and that I'm not trying to insult anyone who uses Windows. I just get very frustrated when people make uninformed generalizations about my computer choice.
Now I know where many of these false assumptions come from: Bill Gates. My ire has been piqued by a Bill Gates interview (here). Others have already demonstrated how foolish his claims are, so I won't address specifics (my favorite rebuttal is here). I'm not surprised that the same company that posted a fake "Mac to PC convert" story a few years ago and has recently admitted to paying a PR firm to tweak its Wikipedia entry is now out and out lying. I wish Microsoft had some class. They're just like Walmart, and it drives me crazy. The more of this stuff they spew, the more I have to deal with people at work complaining about non-existent compatibility problems.
Whew! I feel better already now that I've gotten that out. I'll have something more interesting and upbeat next time (probably not about computers).
Let me give some background. I am a Mac user (I'm typing this on my 4-year-old iBook G3), but I hope that you will recognize that I am not a fanatic, and that I'm not trying to insult anyone who uses Windows. I just get very frustrated when people make uninformed generalizations about my computer choice.
Now I know where many of these false assumptions come from: Bill Gates. My ire has been piqued by a Bill Gates interview (here). Others have already demonstrated how foolish his claims are, so I won't address specifics (my favorite rebuttal is here). I'm not surprised that the same company that posted a fake "Mac to PC convert" story a few years ago and has recently admitted to paying a PR firm to tweak its Wikipedia entry is now out and out lying. I wish Microsoft had some class. They're just like Walmart, and it drives me crazy. The more of this stuff they spew, the more I have to deal with people at work complaining about non-existent compatibility problems.
Whew! I feel better already now that I've gotten that out. I'll have something more interesting and upbeat next time (probably not about computers).
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