Windows Vista - AKA - Windows Insanity
Windows Vista is the next major release of the Windows operating system coming from Microsoft. Development began in 2001 and we "should" see a release by late 2006 according to Microsoft. In the mean time information about the OS has started to surface and in my opinion, it's fucking insane. Here's some of it, and YES it's all true...
In the Home category, Microsoft will create four product editions: Vista Starter Edition, Vista Home Basic Edition, Vista Home Premium Edition, and Vista Ultimate Edition (previously known as the "Uber" Edition). The Business category will feature three editions: Vista Small Business Edition, Vista Professional Edition, and Vista Enterprise Edition.
For those of you not counting, that's 7 editions of Windows Vista. And I love the fact that one of the editions used to be the "Uber" edition. That's just comedy. Now for the real juice...
Nigel Page is a strategist with Microsoft Australia. He told APC today that Vista would work best on a video card with more than 256MB RAM, 2GB of DDR3 memory and a S-ATA 2 hard drive.
Dear lord! If it requires this much hardware to run the OS optimally, then what software will be able to run on top of it? I mean you'd need dual-core, 64-bit processors running side-by-side, and 8GB of RAM to run your 3D software like MAX and Maya and then come to terms with the fact that a huge chunk of that is being eaten up by the OS itself.
This better change in a big way before Vista is released or Microsoft might just lose big-time to other OSes on the market.