FUTURE of MICROSOFT - MY OPINION

Rick,

Yes it's true progress involves getting better hardware to accomodate
supposedly better Operating System.
I still remember DOS vs. Windows3.1 discussions in memory back in early
1990's, you should've seen DOS fanatics foaming at mouth, blasting Windows
and even mouse as a "useless" addition to a keyboard, they would ramble on &
on how keyboard is faster. Which it is - power users don't move a mouse
whenever possible.
I also realize replacing hardware generates revenues for corporations &
jobs. In Capitalism it's bad to be stuck with the same TV for example, for
a decade, as such behaviors cause recessions.
Albeit constant replacing of material things is KILLING environment.
But Socialism has proven to kill even more nature & environment.
OK we established that Vista critics are blaming OS when they might
considerblaming their hardware.

HOWEVER,
Vista is one of the exceptions. It was an OS targeting home & clueless
users, which reflect Security/worm-attack hysteria of the mid 2000's.
So people got
a) Balloons, warnings, UAC, Defenders, blockers, OVERHEAD....
Multimedia which shifted the focus of computing from accomplishing actual
WORK to playing games, music, videos and ironically audio quality is wrose
than WindowsXP despite Vista being tauted as more entertainment-friendly.
This is rubbish for actual work.
c) Inane, childish behaviors in OS-core utiltiies e.g. WinExplorer
organizing files as it pleases, now as user desires to permanently setup.

Now you know why BUSINESS OWNERS stayed away from Vista.
Microsoft has ADMITED it being one of their weak products (though there was
a worse incident - "Microsoft Bob" which was swept from the store shelves
quickly because it was quickly realized, "Bob": is a piece sh**, just like
Palm PDA from 1990's).
Vista is a toy OS.
I can watch TV on it. Play games. And other rubbish. But I am not doing
any of that on a computer. I have a giant LCD TV if I have time (ever?) to
watch the "box".
On the contrary,
Pumping even small files over a Network or file copy was so ridiculously
slow versus WinXP - that is far more important than Vista Aero tricks, Aero
tips, Aero peaks. We can give 2 flying craps about Aero or flipping your
Windows in 3D & semi-transparency. I use computers to work, not to spend a
life watching windows animations.
The fact of me spending a WEEK to disable a boatload of junk services and
features, and UAC getting a way is more important, than monkey music
straming in a sidebar which also shows time in London and weather I can get
at accuweather.com and set their pacg as background if I need.
All such things were meant to increase entertainment, not productivity.
And increase security you might say, but for whom? For nonprofessional,
computer-challeneged people who visit a P o r n site and next morning wonder
why their Google Search is hijacked & someone used their creditcard.
People get infected for 2 reasons:
a) They're not computter savvy
They're morons.
Don't blame Windows, blame your browsing behavior. Quit watching naked
girls on computer, get a REAL one.

Vista is not a business OS.
Ask yourself why so many businesses either stayed with WinXP or went thru
trouble of downgrading to XP after having a bad taste of Vista.
My current client also asked me if I have an XP disk.

Now you see the reason for Windows7.
Windows7 is a "plug" for Vista hole, or Vista fiasco we should say.

You can tell me whatever about inadequate hardware to run Vista, but fact is
things like Aero & Multimedia Center have ZERO VALUE for a busienss.
It's total trash.
I don't care for surround sound either. BUSINESSES DON"T CARE for Vista.
The way WindowsExplorer behaves in Vista versus good old WinXP is abhorrent.
it forgets views and adds columns like "tags", "ratings", "camera usedz',
"artist" toa folder of mixed documents, none of which has anything todo
with showbusienss.
Why do I need to see 'artists" and on the othe rhand why "FILE TYPE" is not
shown, who decided that I need to know some stupid tags on a PDF file,
instead of organizing a folder by filetype (or name)?
I tell you who.

It was a redmond Knucklehead who decided that computers are from now on for
taking pictures and having "seksi" conversation in some retarded teeanage
chatroom.

I hope WIndows7 will take us back to business or some common-sense balance,
along WinXP style.
WinXP & Office was one of MS's geatest products, Vista was a fiasco. F
Vista, really. I am much tired of it.