What's most interesting is that the word "Vista" appears to have disappeared from the Microsoft lexicon.
It's like being in an ultra-religious sitcom where no-body mentions sex in case it occurs to anyone to try it for themselves.
Oh wait, that's not a sitcom, that's Wasilla, Alaska. But the principle is the same – don't mention the war, or in this case the embarrassing belly-flop executed by Vista as it bombed into the shallow end of the sales pool.
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Being able to perform an in-place upgrade from Vista to Win7 via a memory stick sounds way too good to be true, particularly if it happens within the space of a single lifetime.
Surely one of the major problems with Vista was the inordinately over-long upgrade process from WinXP, which nearly always resulted in utter mayhem and crashing applications, followed by cursing and a hurried rollback.
What, you didn't take a snapshot before you tried this?
The woeful upgrade result convinced many folk that their PC just wasn't up to the Vista challenge, when in fact, the majority of PCs which ended up curdled by upgrade ran absolutely fine when a clean Vista install was performed.
Of course that also required a re-install of all the auxiliary software, but what you avoided was all the dodgy drivers which Vista in upgrade mode was unable to block.
And of course, since most PCs from the last few years have a Core 2 chip, they can and will run the 64-bit Vista which for totally dodgy reasons was being offered for twice the price by Microsoft.
Somebody in marketing must finally have got their butt booted, because you no longer pay extra to use all the bits in your CPU.
Microsoft might be a bit slow, but they do eventually get the message.
So we've got 64-bit Vista for no extra cost, cloud computing from Redmond, and a shiny new Windows 7 all lined up to entice us. Anything's gotta be better than putting up with the aging WinXP. Anyone for Linux?
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