Linked by Stephen Reilly on Mon 12th Mar 2007 17:47 UTC
I have been both a Windows and Linux user for a long time (I started with Windows 3.1 and RedHat 5.1 kernel 2.0.x if I recall correctly) and have stuck with both for various reasons. I'm writing this article not as a DIY lofty vantage platform by which I can bash MS nor as a 'Why you should switched' flame bate piece, but have tried to keep an open mind and reflect the actually experience that I have had with Vista so far, regardless of OS political propaganda. Please keep in mind this is still an opinion piece and most probably to be taken with a pinch of salt.
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Windows Vista is the last OS based on NT code that MS can continue to develop because of the fact that Technology is now considered not important in the United States today. It can be sent overseas to be performed at 1/16 of the cost in the market today.
Online apps or even an online Office applications are terrible that is the last thing I would trust or even want to use some online junk through a web-browser.
Microsoft has to develop something new outside of this codebase to win back the Corporate users and home users. They tried to put security first but it is impossible because the underlying code was developed for apps to be ran as administrator why I have no idea. They made Internet Explorer a huge security risk because the 'Internet' was the next big thing well that bubble has burst and the only thing left was viruses, spyware and pop up windows. I think from the MS point of view they were trying to make computing easy however not everyone likes to play by the rules and criminals ruined most internet time with viruses and the like.
I tried out Vista in the store and I was not impressed but I have to give them some credit for trying. In the end I will continue to use Fedora Core and let someone else use MS products.