Vista dawns, world yawns

Redmond continues to lag behind Cupertino and, even five years after its last major OS release, just can't seem to get it right: among other things, Windows XP users who upgrade to Vista will be locked out of Windows XP -- so, to use both, users will have to buy the more expensive full program, as opposed to an upgrade. Hmm.

As opposed to "The 'Wow' starts now", the "Wow" ends pretty much right after the install...

Read more about the product's release here.

(In the interest of full disclosure, the link is to a story on a website devoted to Apple products, but its links to other news sites tell the tale. Not that I'm biased...as I type this on a MacBook Pro running the best OS in the world: Mac OS X...).