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Originally Posted by llama64
Vista is good if you are buying a new PC designed for it. Upgrading an existing PC from XP to Vista is usually a bad decision. Vista is a better OS, but it requires more horses to power it.
That all said, I get the feeling Vista was primarily a test bed for Microsoft in that it lays the groundwork for the next version. Vista really needs to get some good tools installed into it. SSH, a decent shell (Power Shell comes close), easier application installation (the registry needs to be ditched). Then it would probably be the best OS on the market. For now, OS X meets all my needs better and for cheaper.
There is a sense going around the industry that the open-source products are starting to become mature enough to challenge the desktop. People are beginning to "seriously" predict that within 5 years most home users will be running an open-source OS with open-source office products. The corporate world would not be far behind. This kinda puts the Microsoft+Yahoo event into perspective. MS may be forecasting the same thing and is taking steps to branch away from a strict software sales model and more into web based products. Could be interesting to watch
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while I don't want to challenge your last paragraph too much, because I do think that there is a sense out there that M$ doesn't always know best, for the forseeable future I cannot see corporations going away from M$ on the desktop or internally. There is way too much invested in the M$ environment to move away from it. Forever? who can say. but certainly i cannot see this in the next 5 to 10 years.
M$'s acquisition of Yahoo is to try to consolidate and grow revenues via internet channels, and to expand reach. Most companies reach a critical size and it becomes difficult for them to organically grow...and so they are forced to use acquisition to expand. what else would M$ do with all that cash anyways?