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Remember back in the 60's and 70's when the Big Three were shipping cars that sucked because, with a lock on the market, there wasn't any reason not to?

And then the Japanese cars showed up. Better quality, better gas mileage, lower cost. And Detroit's answer was the Pinto and the Vega?

Microsoft Vega. You think you hate it now, but just wait until you own it!

As I sit here purring away with Tiger I can only laugh.

Everything I've seen of Vista is playing catch up with the last two interations of the Apple OS.

Apple has taken huge steps, first by going to a Unix based OS then by taking on Intel. They've bitten some painful bullets to update themselves from a competitive standpoint and to make themselves a superior product.

I don't ever expect Apple to be the dominant OS or even gain more than 10-15% market share. However they have set numerous benchmarks that have left MS in the dust.

It's incredibly hard though to steer a megacorporation like MS. If you're replacing the OS for 90% of the world's computers with a decade or more of legacy software you have to have as robust a successor as possible.

My biggest complaint, as a Mac user, about MS is that Office 2004 really kind of screwed us with only having Word, Excel, Power Point and Entourage (Outlook for you Windows users.). We're missing Visio, Front Page, Project, Publisher and some other components.

I still won't go Windows.

How can you badmouth a Vega? Mine taught me how to wrench big time. I went through so many engines and head gaskets it's not funny.

I finally gave up when the frame cracked up front. I still can't believe people put small blocks in those things. There was room but you ended up twisting the frame after a while if you didn't reinforce it.

Funny how crap like a Vega or Pinto comes up in a Microsoft thread and I like Microsoft (at least XP and 2003).

Now I'm going to lay down in a fetal position...