The rushed results was a Wow Kludge of Vistastonishing proportions.

In 2004 the new Windows XP replacement was cast aside and what was to become Windows Vista was recast from a Windows Server 2003 codebase.

Longhorn/Vista was to be the great rewrite that rid Windows of not just the beta tag and endemic security risks but also some deeply rooted reliability and performance problems. Now Windows has the reputation of being perpetually beta. However, what is really at stake here is Apple’s attempt to win the minds and hearts of the iPod and iPhone set who have been badly burned off by the Bloat that is Vista. Apple begs to differ and cites the Vista weak points of slow speed, bloated size, and high and confusing Windows prices as being some of the reasons for the deep appeal of Snow Leopard. Now Microsoft and pundits are describing Snow Leopard as “just an update, with no major feature changes”. Microsoft is still on schedule to launch for $100++ Windows 7 on October 22nd. The latest slashings/slicings is the announcement and delivery of Apple’s Snow Leopard 10.6 update to the Mac OSX operating system for $29 about 3 weeks earlier than Redmond expected. So Snow Leopard is a diversion that keeps Redmond pre-occupied about the desktop/laptop status quo, while Apple defines another smart device marketplace that it will of course dominate. So trust me – the fighting between Microsoft and Apple can make Halloweed II+III+IV look like play school. This foced Apple to raise its prices while PCs were discounted, killing the momentum behind Macs that were getting top-flite IT reviews. This discounting strategy has worked before against Apple in the mid 90’s when Intel bought up all the crucial components prior to Apple’s launch of its new Mac line. Problem – Microsoft with PC vendors is pushing back by offering PCs, particularly of the laptop variety, at 1/2 than the price of Apple’s comparable MacBooks. Now with Vista being so bad and bloated, Microsoft has opened the opportunity for Mac to seize back a measure of desktop and laptop predominance – lead by Snow Leopard, its sometimes seriously better operating system. Microsoft with some serious treachery to IBM and blatant copying of Apple rose to the desk and lap Tops. But Apple missed the boat despite a huge technology leads on the PC desktop and laptop world back in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. iPhone + iAppStore dominate the phone plus highly portable app and messaging world. iPod + iTunes dominates the media playing world. Apple is getting a stranglehold on the evolution of computing devices, particulary for consumers.

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