The image above is a green leafy Windows Vista wallpaper . Found here.

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 To Access Home Directory

1. Click your Start Menu

2. Go to your user name

3. Right click on it

4.  Click on Show on Desktop

On the desktop your icone would show up.

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I agree on only two of his five reasons. Below are my comments on each his reasons:

5.  Apple successfully demonized Vista - why do people keep on putting Apple on the equation? Jason himself has outlined that Windows XP alone is running on 800 million computers. Counting in Vista, Windows 95/98 (Yes, I know a lot of companies who are still using Windows 95/98), and Microsoft Servers (NT, 2000, 2008) clearly suggests that Apple is NOT IN THE EQUATION.The only equation on the alledged failure of Vista is Microsoft and XP itself. Period.

4. Windows XP is too entrenched - Like I said, Microsoft and XP is the only competitor of Vista. I agree with Jason on this.

3. Vista is too slow - Yes, I agree. Microsoft should have magically kept Vista on a low requirement running PC.

2. There wasn’t supposed to be a Vista - there is supposed to be Windows Vista. I have no doubt that Microsoft made extensive research on pushing another shrink-wrapped software and Windows Vista was just the answer. Unfortunately, the unstable characteristics of Vista did not bode well with consumers and enterprises. Microsoft has been getting away with this approach for so many years and with so many product releases. But today, given the strength of XP, Vista was going to be an uphill battle with the problems it presented during the launch.

1. It broke too much stuff - just four days ago, I downloaded a newly built software from one of the service vendors I have subscribed to; And to my surprise it was crashing on Windows Vista. I immediately emailed the owner of the service, and they apologized for this. Today, they have fixed the problem and the software is running smoothly with Windows Vista. I am pretty sure it was only a quick fix and a few lines of code that their developers had to do to make it work in Vista; but clearly, they forgot about it. Vendors like this and the hundreds of vendors who should have been on top of Vista as part of their high customer support should have done their job and Microsoft should not be blamed for this. Vista did not break stuff; vendors didn’t care about it, despite Microsoft’s continuous reminder to vendors months before it was released.

Nonetheless, it can still be argued that it caused Vista’s alleged failure.

Alright, did I say I agree on only two of Jason’s 5 reasons? I think I’ll include this one as well.

The article is here.

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ZDNet is running a survey with the following options:

Windows 2009
Windows 2010
Windows 7
Windows Vista R2
None of the above

My money is on the “None of the above” because Microsoft would most likely choose something that has a new ring to it like “Vista” & “XP”. Steve Ballmer announced recently that they would have Windows for the internet and even if Windows 7 is not that operating system, the name should definitely connect with whatever online initiative they have. Windows Connect perhaps?

Go and vote at ZDNet.

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A Microsoft spokesman contends that they are doing it to help companies become confident in using Windows Vista and allow them to have a painless transition.

But given thatWindows 7 is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2010, why would companies upgrade then? It would only be 6 months away from July of 2009 and it seems logical that companies would instead go straight to the successor of Vista. I think the real reason is that Microsoft has no choice at all. We’ll see if this is going to be a good move for Microsoft; but do they have other options?

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Anyways, go ahead and vote in the poll here.

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Steve contends that they have operating systems for the PC, phone, servers and now it’s time to have something for the internet. This announcement was made during his speech before CIGREF (Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises) of France. Aside from this, Steve first mentioned this in a speech in London earlier in the week. Steve Ballmer says that their official announcement of this would come four weeks from now. By then, they might even have a trademark for it already.

I am looking forward for this announcement and I pretty sure Windows Vista and its successor would have synch up capabilities with Windows Cloud.

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