Archive for July, 2009

Daniel Dilger of RoughlyDrafted posts another cracking article, this time on The Vista Myth. As usual it is hard to fault Daniel’s logic and I agree with a lot of what he has to say, however I do believe that despite the disaster that was Vista it will take many years for Microsoft’s stranglehold on the corporate market place to be significantly eroded.

Sure the home market is changing rapidly and it is certainly true that the portable and mobile market is a big part of this. How many people now sit down to do their ‘home computing’ at a desk in front of a traditional PC compared to those surfing from their netbooks on the sofa in the living room, or posting to their twitter account or blog from their iPhone ? However many sectors of industry ( mine being health ) are implicitly linked to Microsoft technologies and here change is MUCH slower, typically refresh cycles for major systems are in the region of 5-10 years.

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