Good Headlines, Bad Headlines

A acquaintance writes on Facebook today, “Dear Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer: Vista sucks! Vista is slow on my fast Lenovo x61 with 4GB RAM! [expletive deleted] Driving me to Mac!?”

The opinion he expresses is but the latest in a chorus of complaints and news headlines about the significant shortcomings of Windows Vista, the latest and more seriously flawed operating system from Microsoft.  Windows - regardless of version - is simply an outdated computer operating system, notorious for decades for instability, crashes, lockups, viruses and other time and money consuming technological ailments.

Why, then, do organizations continue to invest in Windows and computers that run only Windows?  I know of a cash-strapped organization that recently made another sizable investment in new Dell computers with Microsoft Windows even though the organization has spent a fortune on simply keeping them running.  As someone with many years experience of suffering with the problematic Windows in work environments, I can say that there is no excuse for any organization to continue wasting money and wasting productivity on Windows, other than to perpetuate internal bureaucracies.  I think the reason they suffer Windows is job security for the IT people.  There is no other intelligent reason … and that reason is certainly not intelligent. 

There is an alternative that works - Apple Mac.  Macs are stable, issues-free computers that work for you as opposed to causing aggravation.  Macs run most of the computer programs as Windows, including Microsoft Office and many others.

This coming week is going to be a big one for Apple - the new G3 iPhone will be announced plus new sales promotion deals through ATT that will make the iPhone more affordable; an updated operating system for current iPhone users;  and, details on Apple’s new OS X operating system, code-named “Snow Leopard,” that should be available in January 2009.  

And, guess what?!! Apple will again make terrific headlines because the company has earned respect, and a reputation for products that work, trouble-free!