Apple has Snow Leopard. Microsoft has Windows 7 (or was that the final release of Vista?) Apple has new laptops. PCs have new netbooks. They also have desktops utilizing Atom and rehashing — wait for it — Windows XP. Yep, the OS that Microsoft supposedly wasn’t going to sell anymore is now out and running on Netbooks and desktop all-in-one (steal from Apple much?) units that cost between $300 and $400, including the OS. Much ado about nothing.
What was really wrong with Leopard? Sure, Snow Leopard has some improvements… but that’s USUALLY an update, when you fix things that should have been right the first time. Ditto Microsoft’s Windows 7. All I can say (well, write,) is “it’s about time!” But why are we being expected to pay for them to get the stuff we bought working right? Shouldn’t it have worked right in the first place?
Then there’s the myriad licenses I’ve paid Microsoft for. 10 laptops in the past 10 years, each of them with a license for Windows. Where do those licenses go when the laptop is buried? Shouldn’t they go onto the new computer? After all, they keep insisting we’re buying the abstract license, not the media it is on, right?
So what was SO wrong with the previous OS that it had to be replaced… and if it was so bad, Microsoft, then why are you rehashing it — two generations back, now — in the very latest of machines?
Maybe it’s time — No, it’s long PAST time — that we wised up, stopped buying what they tell us is the Latest and Greatest. Spending over $100 more to have those promises of something new just doesn’t make sense. If we’re that bored, lets spend that money on something that actually IS new. It makes both dollars and sense to keep on using what already works.
