Bill's last mistake
Vista is yet another example of Microsoft not forseeing the market, not quite one to rank with their failure to take the lead as the internet exploded into people's lives, but still significant. The netbooks coming onto the market represent an area that Microsoft currently cannot compete in, except by allowing a kludge of XP to be installed on some sub-notebooks.
Cheap internet capable computers that anyone can use are the new growth market, not Vista capable PCs, nor those white, shiny, expensive Macs. XP will be 9 years old by the time Vista ME comes out (which we can assume will come with a sub-notebook edition), and already looks very dated compared to the leaner, prettier and more functional Linux distros out there.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
