For New Windows, New Requirements

As you probably know, Microsoft's Windows team sits at the top of an enormous economic pyramid whose base encompasses millions of people all over the world. A new version of Windows means that all those people will buy new computers to run it. Those sales provide enormous boosts to PC companies like Dell and HP. Their company stock climbs. Investors get rich.

A new version of Windows may also require a new version of your favorite software program. Millions of people buy new copies of thousands of programs, triggering yet another economic wave.

Windows Vista, the upcoming new version of Windows, has been delayed, delayed and delayed again; Microsoft is now aiming to ship it to consumers in January 2007. The company has taken a P.R. beating with these delays. But I'm with Microsoft here; they say, better to get it right than to rush out something that's not ready for prime time.....

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