“Microsoft’s recent announcement that the long-anticipated new
version of its Windows operating system, Vista, has been delayed
into January 2007 leaves several questions hanging. Will Vista
offer enough benefits to make it worth the cost of upgrading? Will
those who hang on to the current version of Windows end up locked
out of new software and peripherals? A recent report by the
research firm Gartner asserted that as many as half of all PCs will
not be able to run many of Vista’s most sophisticated features.
Given that, is upgrading even a smart option?“But if the confusion over Windows is deepening, the opposite is
true of Linux…”