Thursday, December 21, 2006
Four more years.. Four more years.. of XP
In 2011 my work laptop will be 10 years behind.. My logic:
In 1997 I got to run Windows NT on my work desktop. It was 4 years old (July 1993).
In 2003 I got run Windows 2000 on my work desktop. It was 3.5 years old (Feb 2000)
In 2005 I got to run XP on my work laptop. It was 4 years old (Oct 2001)
(The pattern seems to be a 3-4 year delay)
I guess in 2011 I will get a copy of Vista (Jan 2007?).
How will it be 10 years behind you ask? See my next post coming soon..
In 1997 I got to run Windows NT on my work desktop. It was 4 years old (July 1993).
In 2003 I got run Windows 2000 on my work desktop. It was 3.5 years old (Feb 2000)
In 2005 I got to run XP on my work laptop. It was 4 years old (Oct 2001)
(The pattern seems to be a 3-4 year delay)
I guess in 2011 I will get a copy of Vista (Jan 2007?).
How will it be 10 years behind you ask? See my next post coming soon..
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Can you Redmond that for me?
I mentioned earlier in another post that in 2011 I will get a copy of Vista and be 10 years out of date. How can this be?
It took Microsoft 5 years and 15 million lines of code to write Vista. The man who lead the charge for Vista, Jim Allchin, is retiring. He once said he would buy a Mac if he weren't working for the Empire. (I agree.) Why do I get an unsettling feeling that this product is going to be underwhelming? Could it be that it is because this man could "lead the charge" on one day, then just throw the product over the wall and run away on the next. Maybe its the hacker community drooling over Vista's security holes that has him running (90% of all current malware will "just work" under Vista -- see this article). I will assume its just good old - old age (kinda like the Windows kernel..)
Vista will go down as the most blatant plagiarization of software in history.
From the Wikipedia (and the Oxford English Dictionary) ..
If you haven't seen this video, it is pretty compelling evidence of my point. Someone took the audio of a Microsoft engineer giving a demo of Microsoft Vista and grafted it over a video of someone using a Mac -- performing all the "innovative" features of Vista.
NY Times technologist and Mac fan David Pogue got into the act and made a video of Vista similar to the one above with his tongue firmly in his cheek. It's pretty funny, but not as funny as the people who thought he was serious. Gadgets are not Widgets. Right..
So as the evidence clearly shows, Vista is a "Redmond" of Mac OS X.
In my previous post I note that my work laptop is always 4 years out of date. Windows Vista, born in 2007, will therefore come to my work laptop in 2011. Mac OS X was born in March 2001.
Vista will be 10 years old in 2011.
Next year when you are visiting the Mexican Riviera, look for Jim Allchin sitting at a cafe smoking a cigar and drinking a nice cold cerveza. He's the one with the sun shades, flowered shirt, and a shiny new MacBook Pro reading Apple rumor site RSS feeds.
It took Microsoft 5 years and 15 million lines of code to write Vista. The man who lead the charge for Vista, Jim Allchin, is retiring. He once said he would buy a Mac if he weren't working for the Empire. (I agree.) Why do I get an unsettling feeling that this product is going to be underwhelming? Could it be that it is because this man could "lead the charge" on one day, then just throw the product over the wall and run away on the next. Maybe its the hacker community drooling over Vista's security holes that has him running (90% of all current malware will "just work" under Vista -- see this article). I will assume its just good old - old age (kinda like the Windows kernel..)
Vista will go down as the most blatant plagiarization of software in history.
From the Wikipedia (and the Oxford English Dictionary) ..
I submit to you that very soon Redmond will be listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as a synonym for "copy" as well.
The word "xerox" (or "make a xeroxed copy", etc.) is commonly used as a synonym for "photocopy" (both as a noun and a verb) in North American English; for example, "I xeroxed the document and placed it on your desk." or "Please make a xeroxed copy of the articles and hand them a week before the exam".
If you haven't seen this video, it is pretty compelling evidence of my point. Someone took the audio of a Microsoft engineer giving a demo of Microsoft Vista and grafted it over a video of someone using a Mac -- performing all the "innovative" features of Vista.
NY Times technologist and Mac fan David Pogue got into the act and made a video of Vista similar to the one above with his tongue firmly in his cheek. It's pretty funny, but not as funny as the people who thought he was serious. Gadgets are not Widgets. Right..
So as the evidence clearly shows, Vista is a "Redmond" of Mac OS X.
In my previous post I note that my work laptop is always 4 years out of date. Windows Vista, born in 2007, will therefore come to my work laptop in 2011. Mac OS X was born in March 2001.
Vista will be 10 years old in 2011.
Next year when you are visiting the Mexican Riviera, look for Jim Allchin sitting at a cafe smoking a cigar and drinking a nice cold cerveza. He's the one with the sun shades, flowered shirt, and a shiny new MacBook Pro reading Apple rumor site RSS feeds.
