Letters to the Editor
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vista is a joke played on the masses
Working at a small company that services home and small business computer users, i must say that vista is a joke. Though our sales numbers are relatively small, the number of people coming to us looking for brand new machines with windows XP installed on them is far higher than the number of people looking for Vista.
Microsoft's self-important statement of its own ubiquitousness is nothing more than a statement to its shareholders, reassuring them that "despite some successes of the Federation, we are still the motherfucking borg, bitch".
The strength of their sales numbers is more a reflection of the disposable nature of windows machines that have a prime installation life of two or three years before they become more expensive to maintain than to replace.
If they had merely released an uber-pimped version of XP, their sales numbers would be higher, as many diehard windows users are still waiting for hardware prices to come down enough to make a machine utilizing Vista's eye candy affordable.
Mac is growing and the problem for microsoft is that every customer lost to the big Apple represents a top dollar consumer who has jumped ship in the realization that all of Microsoft's size and power do not represent a commensurate gain for the consumer.