spherebox

The general availability (GA) of Windows Vista is just around the corner, reviews/articles/rumors/screenshots have been posted in a lot of tech-oriented sites, developers are getting themselves ready, and some Microsoft fanboys just can’t wait for this first major OS release since the good-ol Windows XP.

However, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, doesn’t look particularly impressed (rather predictable) and refers Windows Vista to as “Over-hyped”. “I don’t actually think that something like Vista will change how people work that much,” Torvalds told Computerworld. “I think it, to some degree, has been over-hyped as being something completely new and I don’t actually think it is.”

In Sydney for this year’s linux.conf.au Linux and open source conference, Torvalds said the Vista interfaces may look different but it doesn’t really change fundamentals of the operating system “in many ways”. Read the full story HERE

In my humble opinion, it is hard to judge whether it is a case of sour grapes, but I do somehow agree with Linus that undue hype has been given to Vista, probably because of its relatively long development period.

But still, no one can deny that Microsoft is a good marketing company. Remember how Microsoft advertised its IE7’s Tabbed-browsing and RSS support as if those technologies have never existed before? :P

Trackback URI | Comments RSS