“As readers know, Microsoft has announced the name of its new operating system, which was followed by a collective yawn from the computing community. Vista? As in ‘Hasta la Vista, baby?’ That name might be appropriate as a symbolic goodbye since it might be the end of the line for Microsoft’s dominance in the OS business,” John C. Dvorak writes for PC Magazine. “I’m not saying that Microsoft is doomed as a company, but its reign as the OS dominator may end fast if things go the way I see them headed. The new OS is getting zero buzz. Zero. There has been nothing like this since Windows Me. And now the name Vista,along with the new Microsoft Vista logo, has made it worse. Could anything be less exciting?”
“Vista will open the door to what I believe will be a radical change in the computing landscape. The trends are clear. Once the new Mac OS appears next year it will gravitate toward the existing x86 community much more rapidly than anticipated unless Apple does some incredibly dumb things to stop it. Personally I cannot see what they can do or why they’d want to stop it,” Dvorak writes. “Right now, and as much as x86 users do not want to admit it, the Mac OS is already better than Windows in its modern look and feel as well as its functionality. I see too many smart people with Mac laptops nowadays… [But] is this what we want? How much more of Steve Jobs can we handle? Do we really want to hear him say ‘I told you so?’ If it gets some excitement back into desktop computing, yes, we do. I think we can take it.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Intel-based Macs, 6+ million iPods sold every 90 days, Dell wishes Apple would license him Mac OS X, Dvorak making sense; these are stranges time we live in, strange times indeed.
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