Operating systems

I could just speculate why Microsoft made that move into Vista. It could just be about the money, marketing, financial. But it could very well be to try and address where XP got exploited on which is security. By introducing a nes OS, I think it's still inevitable since there will almost always be a back door somewhere. Windows 98 took quite a while before support came to an almost full halt. Windows XP still may still have much more user base that any other Operating system out there and that speaks for itself. They would still provide support for it for many years. Again, not sure what their real reasons are but they would give more time with Vista this time around.

Personally I hate Vista, XP is far faster and more stable. They tryed to grab some of the good things that Linux and Mac had for a long time already and put it into a windows, but with poor results since it turned out to be an extremly heavy system when compared to others... There are 3 main problems currently that prevent a major shift to other OS systems: 1. Lack of support on other OS from some major software producers; 2. Alot of protocols established between Microsoft and public entities like schools (all over the world) and governamental entities, wich make it that microsoft is still the most well known software and the one that most people learn to work with; 3. Although there is some decent software to allow for the shift by allowing to run MS ready software on other platforms or even software that opens MS Office files (like open office), there still are some problems that prevent full use on other OS and the conversion of formats is often incomplete (like for exemple MS Excel files with alot of formulas and functions)thus making it hard to make the shift because enterprises do not want to waste countless hours of work (already done and the one needed to adapt and convert to the new formats). But things are improving alot lately and I do look up at the future with a smile, specially when I notice that on Universities alot of studdents embrace Linux already and on some countries like France for example, Mac is an OS used alot.

Microsoft will NEVER be beaten by Linux, that's just ridiculous. Microsoft currently has over 90% of the market share on OSes. Mac is making headlines just for getting up to a piddly 7%. Linux has less than 1%. If Steve Jobs could pull his head out of his a$$ he could probably get some real market share by allowing the Mac OS to run on regular PCs. I doubt he'll do that though. At least not for another ten years when Mac sales start to stagnate again. Simple put, Microsoft makes money by selling their products. After all these years everyone and their brother has Windows XP. They can't sell new copies anymore not to mention the fact that it is so easily pirated. Vista was a flop even though they forced it on consumers. It is because of that that they are now rushing Windows 7 out for 2009.

The last I've read linux doesn't even come close to 1% of the OS market share while mac got 4.2% and window garnered a swooping 94.9%. So why would microsoft knelled to any other OS? From win3.1 to win2000, Microsoft did retire its famous versions and windows XP surely has its time too. Every version of windows in the past has undergone an adjustment period so its too early to judge Vista as a failure.