Vista

I’ve just seen this wonderful video by David Pogues: it is so funny, but so sad at the same time. Well, yes, sad for those who, just like me, live into computer science and their lives depend on what happens into this world. I mean, for those people the huge diffusion of Microsoft’s crap is a curse because somehow we are forced to interact with that crap and, given that te crap doesn’t want to interact with us at all, it is a pain in the ass.

The video shows a bit how a lot of the features of new Microsoft’s Vista are copied from MacOsX. Well, I think that Apple made a little revolution with its MacOsX and it’s natural that everyone tries to be inspired by their work, but there’s a big gap between inspiration and plagiarism.
David Pogues is ironical enough to be funny, but it’s so sad thinking that Microsoft is about to impose to the world a 5-years-old OS that will force people to buy new hardware and deal with “evil” TC and the users will greet this new-old OS like the most advanced one.