It’s been some time since my last entry, and as so often happens, life and work tend to get in the way of free time and useless activities.  “You know put off today…Yada…Yada…Yada…”; Oh well…!! 

In any case, I have a whole lot of things floating around in the brain pan, unfortunately trying to pull together a cohesive topic worth talking about, from everything I’ve been thinking about is proving rather difficult at 12:20 am. So I think that I will just talk a bit about Vista and the Vista climate and see where it goes from there.

With that being said, let’s get into something techie!!  I’m sure that, unless you’ve been hiding under rocks lately you know that the Vista release date is creeping up on us; presumably in November for MSDN subscribers.  Also, as we all know Vista is now in RC2 release and has been met with quite an interesting bit of scrutiny, at least in the blogoshpere.  I have come across several posts and threads on the web and I have been surprised by some of the commentary that I have seen.  It seems that the web is full of “experts” that could write a perfect operating system with little to no effort and it would have no issues.  At least that’s what a lot of the posts appear to be preaching anyway.  I do have to say that I have gotten quite a kick out of reading some of the posts, though. 

Now before I go any further, let me just say that I am not an OS expert, let alone a Vista expert.  I also am not affiliated with Microsoft in any way other than as a user of their products. Now Back to my point; it seems to me that writing an operating system is a difficult and monumental task.  Not to mention having to write one that you are expecting people to actually use. :-)  I think that a lot of the people, non-techies and developers alike, tend to forget that.  It also seems as if some individuals think that Microsoft is writing the operating system for them and only them.  Kinda’ selfish, huh!! 

I think that we all need to keep things in a little bit of perspective.  From my perspective, Microsoft is a company that is in the business of making software for a “wide” range of users.  They are also in the business of making software to make money.  Heaven forbid!!  Now they don’t always get it exactly the way we want it, but who does?  Has anybody ever written a piece of software that was bug free, had all of the exact features that it needed, was loved by everyone and was delivered on time.  I think not.  If you have, then maybe you should get into the business of writing OS’s.  I know that I’ve made a mistake or two; not that I’d ever admit to it in public of course. :-) 

Anyway, all I am saying is let’s try to give things a fair chance before we criticize too heavily.  After all, Microsoft has been catching quite a bit of crap from the development and technical communities for the long development cycles and the extended release dates.  Once they get closer to releasing the software we are all begging for, we give them even larger amounts of crap for delivering the product before it’s ready.  Can we make up our mind already..?? 

I know that Vista is not going to be perfect when it is released, and I will probably be cussing it out the first time that it inconveniences me, however I am excited about the foundations that have been built into the system this time around.  Not all of it is sexy or flashy, but it definitely sets the stage for some really cool things in the future.  So let’s try to embrace the goodness and look forward and contribute to the possibilities!! 

Time to put away the soapbox….1:20am.

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