A Retraction

Lately I have been reading quite a few articles about Microsoft Vista. Today's article on TechDirt spurs me into the blog-posting spirit.

One writer opined that the Vista Content Protection specification could be "the longest suicide note in history." Ye gads. Just the number of links to this one article should give you a clue.

OK, long-time readers will recall what I said about Vista some time ago. Uh, I take all that back. Except the part about the OS collapsing of its own weight. That part doth appear to be true. Forsooth and alas. I hate being so right.

It's looking now like I will never upgrade to Vista. Nope, not ever. When Windows XP ceases to be kept current (meaning they stop patching it), I will most likely keep a computer with it running unattached to the Internet, and continue doing my CAD stuff on that computer. Assuming the program will still run on XP. On my main computer, I will most likely be running some flavor of Linux. Perhaps I'll even get an Apple. That could be cool.

It's sad, really. I've been somewhat of a Microsoft fan for many years. I mean, I had a beta copy of Windows 3.0! No shiat. But they seem to have gone and ruined something that could have been beautiful.

Perhaps in 5 years they will release a completely rewritten operating system that undoes the evils of Vista. Perhaps the notion of "operating system" will become as quaint as "landline". Everyone will simply log onto Google and run everything from there.