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Pogue on Vista

Reading Pogue's complete article in the NY Times on Vista is much less snide and cutesie than the video alone. The conclusion: Vista may have copied lots of OSX, may be quite late in coming, but it may just have saved MSFT's bacon.

David Pogue is not one who's been known for carrying MSFT's water in the past, but the article looked at as a whole, makes Vista look very solid. Not everyone will run out and buy it for lots of reasons, including cost and the horsepower it takes to run well on older pc's, but it's going to be in every new pc sold.(polls suggest that it will be a small percentage of present pc owners who will switch unless they buy new pc's)

But whether it's a lot of knock-off of OSX or not, it's not legally actionable based on what he's written (and Apple's old pretty unsuccessful attempt to sue MSFT for Windows knocking off its pre-Unix OS in the past). Also, IMO, very few, if any, potential Vista customers will care a hoot that Windows is a knock-off of Tiger. They will only care that it's good looking, much easier to use than older Windows incarnations, AND it seems to have solved much of the horrible security, spyware, virus problems at least for the moment.

My concern as an AAPL shareholder and mac lover: it just may inhibit the growing migration to mac from the pc world, unless Leopard blows it away, which may now be hard to do.