[Eug-lug] The new VISTA on an Old Landscape

[Harald Sundt]

The new VISTA on an Old Landscape

VISTA will stumble out of the Gates and pull itself up, but...

...really it will prove to have the Microsoft drawbacks of 
"Overmanaging" the user and placing constraints convenient for Microsoft 
on the experience. That won't change.

And, because Microsoft is 93% of the OS market, it will remain the chief 
target of every budding teen-aged and Mafia hacker and remain Virus and 
Trojan Horse ridden. That won't change.

And it still leads in the Chief Sin of Operating Systems, (one the the 
Mac OS, which I use and love, also shares to a great degree), and that 
is Playing the Milk the Market Game of constantly selling us new 
hardware which needs us to buy new software to run new applications 
which demand new hardware, on and on ad-infinitum. In other words, 
text-processing and image-manipulation and business applications, which 
comprise 80% of the need for a computer and which were just fine 10 
years ago are dragged along by ever more fabulous Games and "Online" 
"Real Time" Multimedia activities which can entertain us more 
Photorealistically yet not really add to design and content. That won't 
change.

Our needs are not enough for Their Greed. They tell us what to want and 
then teach us to concider our Wants are Needs. That won't change.

And we will follow until the Petroleum Bubble is Burst and we have to 
turn back to each other for both our Wants and our Needs.  In reality we 
need only Each Other, and That won't change.

Leo Rivers (Hal Sundt)