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What will Windows Vista allow us to do?
Microsoft's top brass Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have officially unveiled Windows Vista for consumers.
If you're really desperate, you can go to one of the launch parties at select CompuUSA or Best Buy stores tonight in the US. CompUSA even has some football stars to ensure that the event attracts some attention (football, as our recently hired US senior editor described it, is a sport where you can "watch large men run into each other").
Microsoft has been talking about Vista and its features for so long now, that we're suffering from an overdose. 3D application may be visually appealing, but after watching rotating windows flip by for months, it's just another feature.
The software is more secure. But just like a boat, you only find out that it has sprung a leak when it's too late. We'll happily credit Microsoft when we'll witness a drop in the number of cyber attacks two years from now (or sooner, hopefully).
Vista's media capabilities won't be of much use until we see some appealing hardware devices that are designed for the living room, or that allow consumers to easily access their data through a media adapter. And meanwhile Cisco and Google will try their hardest wipe out the foundation from under Vista by moving all our data online.
Vista admittedly is cool and a great piece of software. But time will tell if it will help us do amazing new things, or merely provide access to great new services.
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