Bitter laughter

The New York Times has an article about the intention, or lack thereof, of Intel to switch over the OS of its own computers to Vista, the newest version of Microsoft's POS (that can mean Personal-computer-Operating-System, or the other thing, your choice; Rico knows what he means by it):

"Intel, the giant chip maker and longtime partner of Microsoft, has decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft’s Vista operating system... the company made its decision after a lengthy analysis by its internal technology staff of the costs and potential benefits of moving to Windows Vista, which has drawn fire from many customers as a buggy, bloated program that requires costly hardware upgrades to run smoothly... Meanwhile, the Microsoft operating system engine chugs on, phasing out the old and proclaiming the new. The company reiterated this week that, despite some customer protests, it would halt shipments of the previous version of Windows, XP, to retail stores and stop most licensing of XP to PC makers next week. Microsoft also announced that the next version of its operating system, Windows 7, is scheduled to go on sale in January 2010."

Rico says he careth not, since he uses the OS from that fruit company, and hopefully will never have to use a Gates machine ever again...