Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Feb 2007 15:51 UTC
Forbes takes a look at Vista, and writes: "More than five years in the making, more than 50 million lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one over the town dump. The new slogan is: 'The Wow Starts Now', and Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh. But as with every previous version, there's no wow here, not even in ironic quotes. Vista is at best mildly annoying and at worst makes you want to rush to Redmond, Wash. and rip somebody's liver out." They also look at Office 2007.
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2005-07-06
Clinton,
I think you really hit a big issue on the head here. The way Apple solved this (I think?) was to include optional emulation for OS 9 for folks that had to have the backward compat. I think you are right that this is what MS needs to do, just break the chains, offer emulation for the compatibility and come out with something totally new that can serve as a platform for 10 years moving forward.