Hasta la Vista…

Today, Windows Vista has been released. There’s lots of people starting to make everyone think they need it, even if they don’t know why. In France, Microsoft even paid 600,000€ to the major private french TV channel (TF1) to have a presenter showing Vista for about 2 minutes. It avoids the costs of a specific local publicity.

Thay also paid to have some giant Vista stuff displayed on the CNIT of La Défense (big technology center near Paris) the same day that the Solutions Linux event a few blocks from there!

What I thought was amazing, is that some people complain that we can’t buy a computer without Windows. They use this software/hardware couple to force you to buy the software when you buy new hardware.

With Vista this has changed: it is so resource hungry, that people think of buying a new computer just to have Vista shipped with it.