SEOMike - 3:37 pm on Jun 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

What a precedent. A lifespan of 13 years for an OS. I'll bet they thought long and hard about that. Windows 95 was released 13 years ago with the same look and feel of XP. (same start button, same control panel, same basic start menu, etc.) So, 26 total years of the same basic feel of an OS? How are they ever going to break out of that box and offer anything innovative?

Though Vista is a huge pain, it's a welcome freshening. Once you learn it, it's pretty easy to move around in it. I do still use XP on my main work machine though because it ALWAYS works with everything I plug in, and all my SEO software, etc.

It also raises an interesting question; why are they willing to support three operating systems at the same time? XP, Vista and 7 from 2010-2014. Do they not have high hopes for the adoption of 7?