Due to debut in late 2009 or early 2010, the latest incarnation of Windows is being inspected by the U.S. government for possible anti-trust violations. Appropriately titled, Windows 7 (code name Vienna) has been submitted by Microsoft to the Technical Committee which is part of the Department of Justice. You can read more at InternetNews.com. Given the bad press that Windows Vista has received could it possible that Microsoft is rushing another operating system to the market to hold off competitors grabbing a more substantial slice of the pie? Hope not. Take all this with a grain of salt, please. Everybody likes to 'dis' Mr. Gates and Company.
If your hardware can stand it, Vista is not a bad operating system. Stay away from the Home Basic version. It sucks. Home Premium and Ultimate are nice operating systems. The built in protection is very good for the average user that thinks updates are a waste of time. I've run Ultimate for over a year. One reinstall was performed last year and it has been trouble free until now. Recently, major hardware changes required another hard drive format and installation. Now I am being nagged about "activation" again. Ridiculous. It's worked for over a year and now they want another activation? Bozo Steve Ballmer has gone a bit overboard with this anti-piracy doo doo. Gosh I hope he retires soon.
This recent rush to Windows 7 is an interesting turn concerning the capitalistic approach. Apple is using better hardware and trying to penetrate the market. They need to stop fooling around with laptops so thin they fit in manila envelopes. While making this ultra thin model they have sacrificed major functionality. There's no DVD drive in the unit! Concentration on reducing retail prices is where Apple, Inc., utterly fails. They have to become price competitive if the desire is to advance in the marketplace. Not bad machines and it's planned to install one at the beach house eventually for service research. I'd NOT give up my PC for one though. The need for up to date technology in their computer line is still lacking. Maybe not two years behind now, but still 1.5 years.
Linux is thriving. There's a study underway at the beach house about server conversion to Ubuntu Server. If this becomes a functional file server then it will find its way into the local area - even further. My experience with Linux has been the various desktop flavors. Still like the KDE interface best, therefore Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu for the desktop. And let us not forget FreeBSD. This is a great OS that has improved down through the years and was so attractive Apple stole it, made it proprietary by performing Apple voodoo on it then calling it OSX. My FreeBSD machine has sat dormant for many months and will be back online in the near future.Please remember this about operating systems: In the words of Buckaroo Banzai, "Wherever you go, there you are." If you like XP stick with it. If you want to be up to date check your hardware specifications and try Vista. Then there are the alternatives. Or you can wait. Microsoft will bring forth Windows 7 in a timely fashion. That's pretty much a sure bet.
"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is..."
~Robert M. Pirsig
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