Windows Vista is legacy
I am getting the feeling that more and more people/media are losing faith in MS… The media seems to be all over it and last week, Gartner predicted that Microsoft would miss the shipping dates (again). The Observer now has an article online and tips us that Vista might be too complex for Microsoft… Is it true? Has Windows really become legacy?
Microsoft’s problems with Windows may be an indicator that operating systems are getting beyond the capacity of any single organisation to handle them. Whatever other charges might be levelled against Microsoft, technical incompetence isn’t one. If the folks at Redmond can’t do it, maybe it just can’t be done.
Therein may lie the real significance of Open Source. In a perceptive book published in 2004, the social scientist, Steve Weber argued that it’s not Linux per se but the collaborative process by which the software was created that is the real innovation. In those terms, Linux is probably the first truly networked enterprise in history.
Warning, I’m a Mac user (though, I don’t have any problem with windows)
I think Microsoft needs to screw backwards compatibility. Apple’s done it before, so why not go for it? It would sure help make windows better.
And PLEASE, PLEASE stop giving release dates. What until you have a solid product already completed before you give a date. Save yourself the embarrassment. I’m a little tired of all the “Microsoft misses xx date” posts I see in my reader.
I couldn’t agree more! thanks!