Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Nov 2005 15:50 UTC, submitted by Sumi Das
"In such a scenario, Microsoft is investing money in software development, and even though the final product is great (and I use that term loosely) by itself, it is not so significant a change that people will upgrade immediately. I expect a lot of people to stick with their current office suite even when Office 12 becomes a retail reality; same could be the case with Windows Vista. Having said that, it's also a given that there is no way software development can come to a halt. What option does that leave the software industry with?"
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...and that the ads are offensively huge, obnoxious, irritating, and hard to hack out of existence. I hope the end result is a product as annoying as Microsoft Bob.
That will give many Microsoft users the extra incentive to switch away from Windows to something better and Free, perhaps Linux, perhaps something that comes after Linux.
-Gnobuddy