Why you should be invested in Microsoft

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Monday, October 30, 2006

Why you should be invested in Microsoft

I have a theory about Microsoft and Vista. I believe that Microsoft for years has been letting Microsoft Vista.jpg

virus attacks 'happen'. They have purposefully been patching Windows a little at a time. Let me explain why.

In 1998 and 2002 they had a huge profitable upgrade cycle as people bought Win98 and then XP. People upgraded because of the new internet technology that was integrated into the browser and operating system. Wizards and such made it easy to connect using LANs, 802.11b's and g's, cable modems, DSL's, Bluetooths,.... The PC market is now saturated with XP. Microsoft now needs another killer app or reason for people to upgrade to another revision of the operating system.

It is my opinion that they decided in '98 to patch viruses one at a time. They decided people had enough reason to upgrade and they would let security be the next reason for a major upgrade. That is why Vista will be on your computer in 1-2 years.

Now I am not saying that Microsoft engineered their own viruses. I love this American company. They made computers affordable to me. It would be an interesting development though if they stopped support of XP and a new major virus hit the old computers.

There are two other thoughts I had. These are obvious but are worth mentioning. First, the upgrade to the new operating system will cause an upgrade cycle with all software vendors as people get new versions of their favorite programs that work with Vista. Second thought is that Microsoft must now be planning their NEXT upgrade cycle.

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Steve Rush said...

We've known for years that Microsoft uses the old General Motors planned obsolescence strategy. That's why Vista will never be on any of my computers. I haven't deleted my XP partition because there two applications that I use that don't (yet) have open-source competition, but before booting Windows I physically disconnect from the network to make sure that Microsoft doesn't slip me an XP-buster disguised as a security update.

Sunday, December 16, 2007 6:07 PM