Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 20th Apr 2006 00:00 UTC
"I still remember the day very clearly. It was Monday, October 27, 2003. Several thousand developers - and, let's face it, quite a few garden variety Windows enthusiasts - charged into Hall A at the Los Angeles Convention Center like teenage girls at a Justin Timberlake concert, volleying for the best seats. I've been to more Bill Gates keynotes than I can count, and this was the first time I ever saw anyone climb over other people in order to secure a better view (no offense to Mr. Gates, but he's not exactly a dynamic speaker). It was PDC 2003 and everything was right with my world." Read more of the editorial here.
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One of the problems they've [Microsoft] had historically is backward compatibility - this has made it really hard to make major changes to Windows 'under the hood'.
Perhaps using the new VT technology from AMD/Intel (the same stuff that is going to bring some amazing virtualisation capabilities to all OS's, they'll be able to shovel current Windows compatibility into a virtual workload and still have everything look quite seamless.
Even easier, dump all backwards compatibility, include a free copy of VirtualPC along with a copy of Windows XP in the form of a bootable VirtualPC image, and voila, compatibility.
Hopefully then, the speed will be so crap, you'll see customers virtually marching upon these lazy software companies to produce patches, free updates and upgrades for customers who have migrated to Vista.
Sometimes the only things businesses understand is the noisy sound of the great unwashed masses refusing to purchase goods that don't meet their requirements - namely compatibility with the latest operating system released on the market.