Re-stating the obvious: Microsoft plays catch-up

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I was going to just post the above and leave it at that, but in view of the negative press and media coverage Windows 8 has been receiving, including my own whining about it, in fairness I should say that it isn't all bad by any means.

If you like Windows 7, and most of us think it's probably the best Windows ever, then you'll adapt to Windows 8 quite easily. If you're running a standard desktop like I do, you may not appreciate the few extra steps required to get into your desktop from the first couple of other screens you'll first be confronted with, but it isn't an insoluble problem. And any day now, I expect some whiz-kid to come out with a neat shortcut to bypass the initial bullshit for those just wanting their familiar old desktop front and center when desired. 

And for all the fuss being made over the multi-touch features so integral to Win-8, may I remind you that our almost-four-year-old Windows 7 has had touch features built in since it first saw the light of day in January of 2009.
So this isn't anything new - only the extent of its application is new in this latest operating system, which itself is basically a re-working of Windows 7, and is therefore already a well-proven core system, and more reliable than anything we had before it. 

And as Dwight said the other day at his computer shop, we'll adapt sooner or later, because you can't fight progress, and if we're not moving forward, we're losing ground, because everybody else is getting ahead of us. Just ask Microsoft
and they'll tell you - that's how Apple got the jump on them with those iPads.
Microsoft was so busy fixing the fuck-ups in Vasta Vista, they missed the bandwagon on the launching of all these mobiles, and now they're frantically trying to cover their asses and get on the ball, which has already rolled down the road toward Tomorrow. And Tomorrow is the Today we worried about Yesterday, and Time Marches On, Trampling Everything Underfoot. And you can quote me on that..... 

Moving right along here...... the clouds are lifting, and here's what the hills look like around here this morning - the first flakes of the 2012/13 Ski Season.....

 

See what happens when I put Christmas music on the blog? I get my wish! :)