Intel Dumps Vista

You know... I used to send articles out like this all the time to a select few geeks, but now I'm actually starting to feel bad. I feel like I'm kicking a dog that is already down. My nature is to root for the underdog.

I mean, imagine the amount of money that Vista costed. The engineers that burned so much blood/sweat/tears on it, like engineers always do. And the impression of all this work is not so good. No amount of expensive marketing seems to be erasing that.

So on the one hand, I sympathize with the engineers over there who probably have mixed feelings about the results of their collective work. On the other hand, I have this conviction that an ideal marketshare situation that would give us as consumers (and developers) the best possible tech innovations is something like 50/50 or maybe 40/40/20 (with a third player like Linux or some such upstart). That seems to be very hard to achieve and maintain, however. Unfortunately we cannot tally the number of innovations we're currently missing out on if Microsoft's hegemony of the last 13 years hadn't occurred, but I imagine there would be quite a few.

In other news, I'm officially finally starting a tech blog.