The new VISTA on an Old Landscape VISTA will stumble out of the Gates and pull itself up, but...
...really it will prove to have the Microsoft drawbacks of "Overmanaging" the user and placing constraints convenient for Microsoft on the experience. That won't change.
And, because Microsoft is 93% of the OS market, it will remain the chief target of every budding teen-aged and Mafia hacker and remain Virus and Trojan Horse ridden. That won't change.
And it still leads in the Chief Sin of Operating Systems, (one the the Mac OS, which I use and love, also shares to a great degree), and that is Playing the Milk the Market Game of constantly selling us new hardware which needs us to buy new software to run new applications which demand new hardware, on and on ad-infinitum. In other words, text-processing and image-manipulation and business applications, which comprise 80% of the need for a computer and which were just fine 10 years ago are dragged along by ever more fabulous Games and "Online" "Real Time" Multimedia activities which can entertain us more Photorealistically yet not really add to design and content. That won't change.
Our needs are not enough for Their Greed. They tell us what to want and then teach us to concider our Wants are Needs. That won't change.
And we will follow until the Petroleum Bubble is Burst and we have to turn back to each other for both our Wants and our Needs. In reality we need only Each Other, and That won't change.
Leo Rivers (Hal Sundt) _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
