“Go figure- all replies are from the camp of anti-MS ignoramous. Windows desktop shape the world, they always have & always will.”

To Todd T, I say:

If that’s the case, how come those of us who use Linux with either the KDE or GNOME desktop environments have had the “Start” menu, rounded corners and transparency in our windows and menus since around 1994, but M$ (the money-hungry whores that they are) didn’t introduce them until after 2000? Also, explain why *EVERYTHING* that one sees in current versions of Window$ has come from the Open Source world? The explanation is simple, Bill Gates “stole” DOS from a guy in Seattle back in 1980 or 1981 and built his company on it by selling a license to use that operating system to IBM, while claiming that it was his own. *AND*, has been doing the same thing to the Open Source world (stealing their ideas, violating the GNU General Public License by using their code in his *proprietary* software. Bill Gate$ and Micro$oft have been bullying companies in the software market for over a decade and their time is done.

According to various web sites found simply by Googling, Linux and Mac are on the rise and estimates put them at owning at least 50% of all desktops by the year 2012. Micro$oft has cut its own throat with emerging Third-World economies by pricing their operating systems and software out of reach of these people that are just starting to get into techonology, and, therefore, those emerging markets are going with the “free” choice of Linux (in most cases) and others are going with Mac. I look forward to the day when Micro$oft finally does the smart thing and follows Apple’s lead by dumping their kernel (which has never been anything worth bragging about in the first place) and replacing it with the Linux kernel.

I agree with what was said (either in the article or by another poster) that Micro$oft has never been good at the operating system side of things, but *has* created some pretty darned good software over the years. I mean, M$ Office has always been great and very useful, even though there is a lot of the Office suite that *most* people never even use.

Anyway, that’s just my $0.02…or maybe $0.04…

Cheers,

Sean C.
PekinSOFT Systems

Whatever you need to do man!

FYI – Vista kicks butt!!!

Barely three months now, and I am already thinking of getting a pretty iMac for my wife, who now loves technology now – after she started playing with my MacBookPro. Santa is coming with an iMac for the family.

As a previous comment stated, “,,,people are starting to wake up…” Not the case here…just had to save the $2700 and get my new toy…BEST F($&ING MONEY I EVER SPENT!!! ;-P

I run my business without a single Micros**t product. You had me for a while but I got wise. You got where you are in the slimiest manner possible, giving you a worldwide D- for ethics (thank you EU).

Well I decided that if any of MY business partners behaved half as bad as you I would not be able to look myself in the mirror at night.
Why the heck would I want to finance Micros**t lawyers as they trample over company after company??

So I resolved to rid myself and my company of Micros**t once and for all.

To date: No issues to report. AND I don’t fear spyware, adware, trojans, worms, ‘Service Packs’, and the rest of the Windows baggage. My tech support needs are amazingly minimal and I to top it all off, I don’t have to look at the dog’s dinner that is Windows every day.
Icing on the cake!!

After ‘Vista’ was supposed to wipe out Apple’s cool slick OSX advantage we now hear of yet another vaporware product from Micros**t.

@Patricio.
I experience the exact same thing over and over.

All I do is show them Spotlight or the Dock. I open 12 apps and whizz through them with expose. Windows sufferers are amazed! I’ve had all this for years while they think transparency in the OS is a new thing.

When given an informed choice, people will choose the better system, they’ll pay more for the better system.

People are waking up finally.

Seriously, Microsoft should call it a day on the OS front and get back to making decent application and server software we can all run on the platform of our choice. Start by fixing that abomination of a browser, Internet Explorer, and move onto bigger and better things.

There are things that Microsoft do well, but operating systems aren’t one of them. They’re down, but hopefully not out.