Dvorak writes a pretty good column on the new operating system from Microsoft, Windows Vista:

As readers know, Microsoft has announced the name of its new operating system, which was followed by a collective yawn from the computing community. Vista? As in “Hasta la Vista, baby?” That name might be appropriate as a symbolic goodbye since it might be the end of the line for Microsoft’s dominance in the OS business.

I’m not saying that Microsoft is doomed as a company, but its reign as the OS dominator may end fast if things go the way I see them headed. The new OS is getting zero buzz. Zero. There has been nothing like this since Windows Me. And now the name Vista,along with the new Microsoft Vista logo, has made it worse. Could anything be less exciting?

A friend told me he’d read on Slashdot somewhere that they should have named it Copeland.

Dvorak goes on to predict good fortunes for Apple.

Read more here.

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