XENOPHONZ opened this issue on Oct 07, 2007 · 71 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 24 October 2007 at 11:24 AM
Heh......interesting to note that the page for the Vista shutdown article also has a link to a "Why I quit Linux" article about a former Linux kernel developer --
That one makes for a good read, too.
Of course I can't be dogmatic about this, but I get the feeling that Vista as we currently know it won't be the 'latest 'n greatest' OS from MS for very long. It'll likely be quickly (2 years, maybe?) replaced by MS with something else.
In the meantime, let's all switch to OSX and solve all of our computing problems.........:sneaky:.
I think that I'll ride out this storm for awhile -- sitting in my XP lifeboat for a bit and waiting to see what happens. It wouldn't have been a good idea to buy a betamax machine back in the day, either. Sure: it was better than VHS, but Sony made the critical error of monopolizing the format in an attempt to force everyone to come to them. Such attempts rarely work: with Microsoft being a glaring exception. Even IBM lost the battle, due -- in part -- to an inability to predict the future (an ability which Bill Gates apparently had), coupled with old-fashioned ideas about mainframes being the end-all of computing, while the new PC's were regarded as mere toys.
Microsoft: you will be assimilated.......resistance is futile..........