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Story: Windows Vista: a first look

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Yes Windows Vista will be the greatest ever. Again. Like everything Redmond before it. Bleed, sweat and cry again because this time, really, promise, everything will be as it should be in everyone's eyes. And look, it has new cool gadgets, let's really focus on that.

Only thing left to do is to kill all those third-party vendors because they'll be the ones demanding from their customers to change security setting this and functionality setting there just to get their applications up and running again. So place all your eggs in one basket and be convinced that one size fits all. Hopefully Microsoft will buy up some printer company soon and get that also sorted out.

Because all these problems with various Windows versions are ofcourse caused by users, administrators, hackers, crackers, illegal software, crappy third party drivers, bad designed third party software, anything and everything but a flawed and bloated technical design with plenty of undocumented features lead by a PR minded brass right from the get go that's still the basis of it all.

Yes, if your car keeps breaking down then ofcourse the best thing to do is to ask the sales man what to do about it again and again rather then asking a true independant and multi-vendor experienced car mechanic that happens to have the right tools. At least your car will be mucho bling-bling then. If it's reliable is another matter but you know the golden rule of how to deal with strange and worrying sounds coming from your company car: turn up the volume until you don't hear those sounds. Hey, quick and easy fix and much more cheaper and faster then some serious overhauling. Right?

Sometime they must get it right is what some believe. Right, wonder what motivated you to buy into all those upgrades and patches so far. Hmmm, there's a business strategy for you.

I wonder what happened to the principel of simplicity, transparency and sound engineering. It must have been lost and lost again starting the mid 80's or so.

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