04.25.08
Microsoft is doin’ it to themselves this time.
Remember the 90’s. Microsoft went to court because they were being accused of monopolistic behavior. Shutting out Netscape from the other computer vendors so that Internet Explorer could be dominate all because they were getting spanked by Netscape. Microsoft fired back by doing a little digital slight of hand. They made it so that Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer were the same thing. They then went to the government and said that Internet Explorer was part of the operating system thus could not be removed from Windows. Microsoft was spanked on the wrist and thus told to play nice with the other kids. Dominating the PC market, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Enter Windows Vista. Microsoft’s new knight in shining armor, or so they thought. This huge upgrade caused people to buy a brand new computer just to run the darn thing, only to find out that alot of the ooo’s and aaah’s was eye candy. Plagued with compatibility problems and and security snafus and such, Microsoft released a service pack. You know what everybody else in the tech industry calls an update. The service pack was huge like its parent program; it should have been called Vista 2.0.
XP, however, has matured to the point that everyone that has not moved to Apple or Linux is satisfied. Microsoft says no. Not only do you need Vista, you must get Vista while holding an ax over the head of WinXp. The only different between now and the 90’s is that Microsoft is only player in the game. They are being a monopoly against themselves. They competing against themselves and losing, and they don’t get it. If ain’t that broke, don’t build another that you can’t fix!