Vista Available Today

Of course we can ignore this event: Windows Vista is available.
Even though we are a Mac-dedicated website, we have to follow evolution on the Windows OS as we also do it with Linux world.
We already said that Vista will give head hake to consumers to purchase the right version they really need, without mentioning that the new MS OS version will be expensive... for now real reason to our point of view.
However it is always good to have competition from Microsoft as it is probably the only way to keep Apple under pressure to innovate and offer substantial evolution for Mac OS.
Moving from Panther to Tiger was an update built up around the widgets, so if you do not use them, then you probably did not notice much in-depth modifications.
Leopard is expected to be a major (r)evolution of OSX, and should be available latest in June.
But back to Vista, with more than half a billion US$ spent into marketing this new OS version, Microsoft will probably make it a best-seller, even though many PC websites are not astonished by Vista, and do not really appreciate the built-in user management (how can you be creative?).
If Vista is not the expected success, then Microsoft might really start being in trouble after releasing so many products with mixed adoption among consumers. Business and enterprise IT are still Microsoft's monopoly due to dozen of thousands IT engineers who went to "Microsoft schools". But again, this will also evolve, and first signs of Apple OS and Linux in Enterprises IT solutions might shake Redmond's giant.