The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has just launched www.badvista.org, targeting at Microsoft’s latest OS scheduled to be fully released on January 30, 2007 in the US. You’ll find many facts, security holes, and what not detailing on the so called “Longhorn” project that has taken up so much resources of Microsoft in the recent years.
It would be interesting to see how well the launch would come out to, looking at lots of bad press on the product, from Mac OS X wannabe into numerous security hole –exposed even before it’s fully releases (although partly that was Microsoft’s strategy). With free software movement, or rather publicly known as open source software (although they are two different things — free software could be closed-source, and open source doesn’t have to be free –it’s the freedom to modify the source) taking into mainstream, it would be rather interesting to see how Vista would start creeping into user’s everyday’s life.
Having said that, I don’t think the issue is whether anyone would want to use Vista (instead of Linux Fedora Core for example), but I guess for the masses, it’s a question of whether there’re enough incentives for users to “upgrade” from their existing Windows desktop system (XP, 2000, 98, 95 believe it or not) into this new OS, dubbed so as advanced graphics focused (even though if you’ve ever used KDE desktop environment before, their interface is one of the better interface, let alone that of Mac OS X).
Oh, well you’ll find out!!
By far, Manchester United 4-0 performance against Bolton away at Reebok stadium last Saturday is the best team performance this season, led by the tenacious birthday boy Rooney’s brilliant hat-trick. Everyone is involved in the game, from van der Sar, who made an important save just before half-time to keep the score 2-0 to Carrick who showed why he is worth over 19 million pounds. Two assists including a magnificent inch perfect long pass to Saha who setup the third goal for Cristiano Ronaldo. The scoreline might’ve been a little unfair to Bolton who showed their resiliency midway through the first half and showed some promises in the beginning of the second half, although at the end of the day Manchester United fully deserved to win, and not only winning, but winning with style, a flowing football style that was the characteristic of the Cantona-led team during the 90s that ignited the English football. Brilliant!!
It’s a disappointing loss, especially when it happened at home, breaking up a streak, but losing this game early on is much better than rollin’ high only to lost like this in the playoff. I’m speaking with the assumption that the Broncos will make it to the playoff, and I do believe they will, although competition is now tight with both Chargers and your truly Broncos sitting altogether at the summit of AFC West at 5-2.
