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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Vista at the tipping point
>
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>| Where are the new features?
>|
>| Why is Vista such a catastrophe and how does this affect the Open
>| Source/Free Software community? Part of the problem, I think, is that
>| Vista essentially does nothing new, and has no new features that are
>| of interest to the general computer using public. The veteran IT
>| journalist Nicholas Petreley (now editor of Linux Journal) created
>| his first law of computer journalism, which is "No technology
>| exists until Microsoft invents it". This held true while Microsoft
>| systems were so primitive that every new release was a vast
>| improvement on the previous one. The public "oohed" and "ahhed"
>| over such exciting new features as multi-tasking, and overlapping
>| windows; even as people in the industry tried to point out that
>| every new feature was merely copied from other, more sophisticated
>| systems. The problem for Microsoft is that most of this copying has
>| already been done. Windows XP actually has most of the features of
>| Linux and the Mac, though I'd complain they're implemented poorly
>| in Windows. Even if Vista has improved on the implementation, what
>| kind of a marketing message is "we now do things properly"?
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> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6151049.html
>
I suppose that when you consider all of Microsoft's other marketing
messages over the years, it's not so bad as it might seem. The world's
best marketing company can surely get by with this one? Can't they?
It would be amazing to consider the possibility that Microsoft have gone
a 'step too far' this time, but somehow, I think that there's always the
possibility that they'll get away with it again.
Still, things are certainly changing. I was walking past meeting rooms
yesterday, and spotted one laptop with the Ubuntu login screen on it.
It would appear that our Microsoft Windows thought police are losing
their battle to keep us all on Windows after all.
Next step - can we stop the OEMs paying Microsoft for windows whether we
buy it or not?
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb
to you till your life has illustrated it. -- John Keats
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