One of my favorite Sci-Fi movies of the past few years was iRobot. The film was so loosely based on the Isaac Asimov book that they had to put "inspired by" rather than "based on" in the credit.
The film took place in the near future in a time where every home had a robot.
One main corporation was responsible for supplying most of the robots. As a new line of robots was introduced, the corporation gladly exchanged everyone's existing robots for free for a brand new model.
What no one suspected was that the new robots were rigged to take over the world.
Today I went shopping for a computer in behalf of a client. I was surprised to see that the shelves everywhere were almost bare. Every store has been given a January 30th deadline to have all Windows XP machines off the shelf. After talking to store employees, it appears that no one will even be able to find a copy of Windows XP on most shelves after the official XP release.
While Microsoft may be making the move to improve their own service and support by focusing on one product, it is far more likely that they know that there is no real reason to upgrade to Windows Vista so they are making moves to force it into the market.
We have been using Vista for several months on test machines and we are unimpressed. I am sure I will write in coming weeks listing all of the ways that I am unimpressed with Vista, but for now I will just say that I am unimpressed.
If you want a new computer and don't want the headache of learning a totally new interface and process of getting stuff done, rush out and buy one of the last Windows XP machines on the shelf. Don't wait to see what people think of Vista because you can always upgrade later if you have an XP machine – in fact most stores are providing the upgrade for free.
