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« on: February 19, 2007, 03:48:04 PM »
I am a 15 year veteran software engineer. The truth is that Microsoft software is a hulking obsolete giant at it's core, with lots of pretty visual/audio media skin deep. If Microsoft came into existence today as a new company and presented Vista to the software engineering world as a new Operating System, Microsoft would be laughed off the planet and not given a second thought. If you ever get a chance to run an operating system that's a true technical marvel (such as Linux), you'll discover straight away how faster your computer really is without XP's hulking boat anchor at it core weighing it down. The fact is that Microsoft survives because their marketing group successfully schemes to maintain a near monopoly in the world of operating systems-- their success categorically has nothing to do with technical superiority.
That said, I currently run Windows XP (as opposed something like Linux) because I'm forced to since Microsoft maintains the near monopoly and there are so few applications for other operating systems. Then, I'll run Vista after it's been out for about a year-- because I'll be forced to.