What Will Vistas Legacy Be?
Years from now, when you’ve moved on to Windows 7, you’ll look back at Windows Vista fondly. You’ll remember its fabulous attributes, not its flaws. (Yes, Vista’s terrible driver support and not-so-nimble performance will be banished from your mind.) Wait, don’t start flaming me on this: That’s the opinion of a Microsoft executive who said in a recent interview he believes that Vista’s not-so-hot reputation will be exonerated in the next couple of years. If that theory is true, then I should still miss my used, ugly, monkey-poop brown 1971 AMC Gremlin that featured a driver’s door that I had to tie shut with rope because the door jamb was rusted out. Let me tell you folks, I don’t miss anything about that car, although I do fondly recall the day I accidentally set it on fire while pouring gas into the carburetor. But that’s another story. In a blog item on CRN’s ChannelWeb, Steve Guggenheimer, vice president of Microsoft’s OEM division, said he thinks that because the new Windows 7 —
