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I’ve reinstalled my PC. Down to four partitions – the Acer recovery partition (the BIOS insists on it, won’t boot otherwise), 32GB for / (ext4), 4GB of swap and the rest for /home. Yep, no Windows. Except I now have two Windows installs…
You see, I’ve been using Windows 2000 in VMWare Player for a while. It had all the right drivers and works – quickly, too. Better than my native install of XP did.
And then there’s Vista. You know, I’ve realised I quite like Vista, actually.
Vista represents something about Microsoft we’ll never see again. You may say that’s not a bad thing, but it’s not what Vista is (it’s a low watermark in the Windows product line, although maybe not as bad as Windows ME), it’s what it represents.
It represents Microsoft’s attempt to compete by taking risks and trying to put out good products.
They tried with the Kin as well, and it just showed they didn’t understand the mobile market. And now, I’m worried they’ll go into a 1990s IBM phase, incremental point upgrades losing them market share, bleeding by degrees. Anyone else remember feeling IBM bought Lotus as a favour to Microsoft? (Incidentally, did Oracle buy Sun as a favour to Microsoft, as a way of killing Java and OpenOffice? I’m starting to feel like it…)
Incidentally, Windows runs better under VMWare than it did on native hardware. Go figure…
Tags: Java, Kin, Lotus, Microsoft, ORACLE, Sun, Vista, VMWare, windows, Windows Vista