Is there a correlation between lithium battery fires on aircraft and Vista? I don't think so, but if the FAA goes with Linux then that is another knell for "beleaguered" MicroSoft.

... more exactly in 1998, one could see people everywhere with plastic bags with the Windows logo on, carrying home their brand new Windows 98. A couple of years later one could see the same with XP, but now? I cannot see I have seen the same around where I live (Norway). In some shops there are a little advertisement for Vista lying around, but nothing spectacular. No mention of it in local newspaper. Nothing of the "Hooray-we're-off-to-the-War"-enthusiasm from earlier releases.

Combined with news like this, makes one believe that we are finally witnessing the end of the monopoly. What I hope for now, is to see some real, real user-friendly Linux-distros and maybe even a couple of new OSes coming up!

I hope reliability and uptime are factors in the FAA decision. It would seem to me that Apple hardware would be more reliable than Dell's, and using OS X would be more reliable than Linux, while still being able to run the Google software.

Of course, government agencies must go with the low bidder, right?

Looks like Billy Boy and Uncle Fester have shot themselves in the foot. Guess it is aptly named. “Vista,” as in Hasta la vista.

I don't know how, but this has to be great news for Apple! I'm sure Gene Munster will explain soon!

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Rainy Day wrote:
Looks like Billy Boy and Uncle Fester have shot themselves in the foot. Guess it is aptly named. “Vista,” as in Hasta la vista.

Bill Gates was before Congress today asking for unlimited H1-B visas. He also asked for a better education system so we can grow our own engineers, but I find it hard to believe we don't have enough domestic talent.

I have always been critical of look and feel of MicroSoft products, seems so clunky and unpolished. After watching him on TV as he testified I think the problem starts at the top, Bill has a real bad haircut. Seriously he looks like a characterized professor in movie, even Kim Jong-il has a better haircut.

Looks like a lot of people are passing on Vista.
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2007/03/07.10.shtml

As far as H1-B visas, I think part of the problem is that there are too many already. IMO, and I may be wrong about this, as long as it's easier for companies to bring in cheap talent from overseas, it will be hard to keep and grow a pool of talented engineers and sysadmins domestically.

n/t