Its almost a matter of fact that most of us grew up with Windows OS. Hey, Steve just did not get a team he needs like he does today, and most notably different, he took the long but rewarding road to a different approach to OS design. Enough said. Windows XP is well-supported and has a major following but is plagued with the lack of fundamentals at the core. The 32-bit road is overused to the detrimental effect to Microsoft and her official announcement recently to terminate her support just signal to the world its time to move on. I used to tweak the OS so much it that became a cult in its act but there's only so much you can do. The Internet threat is not getting smaller each day and Windows OS are the target boards for more hackers to pride themselves in crippling it. Windows Vista is a disaster, waiting to be salvaged with a rebranded name - Windows 7.
As far as I am concerned, this will just be another disaster waiting to happen sometime in mid 2009. Application developers who rallied into lifting up Vista are now faced with a dejavu again in less than two years from their investment. Face it, reformatting the Windows OS is becoming part of my job scope every six months or so, just to maintain it at her peak state. A new approach has to be taken. Against flogging a dying horse, I moved on to Steve's camp hesitantly out of necessity and I thought you should too...soon, if you don't wish to be sandwiched to death in your organization or home.