Happy Feet

I only had three customers using the latest leveraged OS from Microsoft called Vista back in 2007, but the problems came in thick and fast.

My opinion at that time was

"I expect a lot more of this Global giant monopoly and am sadly disappointed"

Now in 2010 it would appear there was cold reason behind that release.

If you have a monopoly over the supply chain of the World PC market and can leverage all suppliers to do as you wish your thinking is more about profit than any other matter.

In Microsoft shoes four years ago with a looming prospect of more restrictive pressure on software products and Gov'ts employing Courts to make the requirements enforceable 'Vista' made good sense.

Do a quick shabby release and force suppliers to adopt it - know ing there would be problems all the way down the line with the captive supply chain and customer base struggling.

Stop support - bare minimum on the established and reliable XP to again force all user-base to adopt if possible.

Sends market into a spin, but makes MS money it would not otherwise have had continuing with XP.

Now release 7 at end of 2009 to take the glory and sales just before legislation requires ten years of support for new products.  IE they have managed two new OS sales before the Court ruling took effect and what do users get for their money?  95% same functionality as they were using in 1998 running on PCs that use four times as much energy and less productive staff because of the bells and whistles, market information gathering and eye-candy.

Now 7 is a good release and it does most things users want very well, but behind the scenes there is a new generation of platform thinking coming from Microsoft.  The users do not notice any change, but to us developers we can see the trend away from open platform on which to release our applications for customers towards the closed-shop.  This is not about common good it is about maximum profit and not caring about customers, the planet nor anyone in the supply chain making an honest living.  It is not even about fair competition and natural survival of the fittest/best breed.  This is pure sickness and madness that comes from too much unregulated power vested in a US business and a few crazed CEOs playing with the health of our planet for the Wolves at the stock exchange.

Our economic systems are failing us and we need to stand back and ask ourselves is profit king?

Without Prejudice.

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