Starting With a Clean Sheet
The technology news today talks about Microsoft delaying its planned introduction of the next-generation Windows until 2007. The delay of Vista makes me feel pretty much behind the curve, as I loaf along reasonably happily on Windows 2000.
I say reasonably happily, as it’s a constant challenge to keep upgraded with this or that patch and fingers constantly crossed that my firewall is up to battling the flames of hackers worldwide. Fire extinguisher at my side, I struggle as you struggle, trusting to luck and upgrades to keep me productive, if not relaxed.
I wonder sometimes if Windows hasn’t become something akin to the tax code—so complicated and so reliant on historic versions of its year-by-year upgraded self that it’s beyond any fix. Wouldn’t it be nice to think that delaying Vista until January meant it would be solid as a rock instead of holier than Swiss cheese?
But somehow I doubt it.
Hackers are not smarter than Microsoft’s programmers, they’re just better motivated. Windows, wit…