Editorial: Vista - Where's my innovation?
Microsoft's Vista is taken to task over the lack of innovation...

There’s no doubt that Microsoft has had an effect on the computer market that could really only be referred to as “global.” Taking inspiration from the Unix and Apple interfaces, the company produced a stable operating system that changed the world of computing forever.

But to quote Eddie Murphy, “What have you done for me lately?” In other words, where has the innovation and imagination that went into the early Windows builds gone? There are scores of readers and critics that have pointed out the features in Vista and said, “You know, Apple has had that for a while.” While I won’t go into them all here, there are some recent comments made by various folks that have really gotten my gut churning. As the resident [H] Mac zealot, it falls to me to defend the honor of perhaps the only true innovator left in the OS business.

In a recent article, [H]’s esteemed Editor-in-Chief made some flagrantly, but not uncharacteristically, blunt comments regarding his opinion about Mac OS and, indeed, the company as a whole: “Apple operating systems = suck. All of them. Actually, it’s Apple itself that sucks.” He later specified his particular distaste with the company with the following rationale: “It shoves its terribly overpriced ‘froo froo’ hardware down my throat to make me get the OS, and, quite frankly, I am just not buying it.”

The initial blanket statement had me asking, “Well, would you like to know what I think of Microsoft, Mr. Bennett?” But then I began to see his point: He’s not happy because the most stable OS on the market is only available with Apple hardware. This is understandable, and perhaps Apple does suck for excluding nearly the entire DIY enthusiast market as potential customers.

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So maybe Apple sucks. But I’m here to tell you that Microsoft sucks more.

Read all about it here, courtesy of hardocp.com

Eric