I just cannot believe that Microsoft has gotten 15+ years of mileage out of the "Just wait, the NEXT version of Windows is going to be great!" pitchline.
Every time a new version of Windows is about to come out we get this great line about how Microsoft has finally gotten their act together and released a real OS.
I don't mean this as a Windows-bashing post, but, c'mon, we've heard all this before.
Vista broke many XP applications, and customers (particularly enterprises with legacy software) avoided this by not upgrading. Now Windows 7 will be compatible...with Vista, not XP. This doesn't really fix Vista's mistakes: customers who didn't upgrade are once again faced with having stuff break when upgrading Windows.
I'm not saying change is bad, but why is Microsoft unable to grasp the idea of virtualizing legacy (especially with proven examples of this, such as Apple's Classic environment?). There is absolutely no reason to cause countless customer applications to break, much less to make them pay for the privilege of upgrading. Microsoft jeopardizes their revenues by again making Windows upgrades risky for businesses.
Every time a new version of Windows is about to come out we get this great line about how Microsoft has finally gotten their act together and released a real OS.
I don't mean this as a Windows-bashing post, but, c'mon, we've heard all this before.