another post in the “Generation Y?” series
It’s out today and it’s supposed to be simplified. It’s probably a good lesson in admitting past mistakes though it falls short of being an apology for the aforementioned past mistakes. Anyone who has had to deal with the pyrotechnic logistical impossibility that is Windows Vista will know what I mean by “past mistakes”. Vista is a nightmare. Yesterday night as I tried to tune in to (perfectly legal) streaming of the Juventus – Maccabi Haifa match, my mini-laptop decide to perform a series of unabortable, unblockable updates to the windows system.
My attempts at informing the system of my desire to posptone said updates until the termination of the afoementioned match proved to be futile and I was lucky to get Chiellini’s equally fortuitous goal before being completely cut off from the rest of the sketchy transmission. Yes, Vista sucks and as Microsoft crawls a step-further towards Apple-inspired Valhalla it is legitimate for all of us to hope for the best.
The marketing campaign promises to be an interesting affair and slogans such as “Simplified” or “1 billion = 7” prove undoubtedly that Microsoft are on the right end of the learning curve. They’ve got the packaging right… but as we all know the proof of the pudding lies in the tasting.
