Written and directed by Josh Faure-Brac, the video starts with the usual fights between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The fights are meaningless and both should just concentrate on providing their respective users the best of Internet connected experiences. The Internet will make platform war obsolete forever.
When compared to Commodore 64, the best selling single personal computer model of all time, Windows Vista and OS X are both far more advance. Both platforms have added more and more features that are identical and often indistinguishable with the common intentions of facilitating better connected experiences. Why the fight?
The Digital Decade, as addressed by Bill Gates on October 2001 is a vision of making PC the platform to supersede TV. In the Digital Decade, you’ll no longer think of the PC as a tool you use only to carry out specific tasks, it will become something you come to rely on all the time.
How true is the above statement in the beginning of 2007? As Bill Gates addressed the crowds in CES 2007 in Las Vegas, “Over 40 percent of U.S. homes now have multiple personal computers. And if you look at young people, the new generation, they actually spend more time on their Windows PC than they spend watching TV. Now that’s a pretty dramatic change.” In other words, the market is ready for Digital Decade.
The hurdles of realizing Digital Decade had always been PC was not the focal point of a family - it was television. PC was first for scientific calculations and later business spreadsheets. When multimedia finally arrived with the launch of Intel Pentium processor, there was not much to play except encyclopedia contents.
Microsoft security guru Michael Howard put the sign (the title) on his door on commemorating the completion of Windows Vista. Last week, Microsoft’s shares closed above $29 for the first time since November 2004. The market looks ready to embrace the day for Vista - Jan 30, 2007.
Vista has improved reliability and security, protected mode IE, Aero glass UI and media centricity together with gratuitous UI changes, degraded performance on older machines, new compatibility issues and high cost of migration. Despite mixed views from market watchers, Microsoft remains bullish about its latest operating system.
“Our market is so much larger now than five years ago when we introduced Windows XP. We expect Vista to be the fastest-adopted OS in our history,” said Mike Sievert, Corporate Vice-president for Windows Client Marketing.
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