Windows is a Good Thing

I've been in the trade for a long, long time. I've been in Redmond and in Silicon Valley and a few places in between like Mukilteo and Ilwaco. Anyway, it's always amazed me how strident the Windows bashers are - many of them taking their paychecks from Windows-based businesses as they speak.

So, just for the record, I want to say that Windows is a good thing, that Microsoft isn't an evil empire and we are all better off for it - if short a few more bucks. I think that Linux is great but tire over having to figure out each time all over again just how to get that new app installed and working. I do systems integration for a living - among other things - and would never venture into that camp. Been there, done that.

I look around and see all sorts of productivity improvements and all of them on Windows and MacOSes. Whether they are cutthroat or benevolent or arrogant or just very rich I say hats off to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and all (or most all ) of their folks. It's that productivity thing....

I'm not dwelling on Macs or Unix or Linux because this isn't about a comparative analysis. What I work on these days are Windows systems and their peripherals and so, figure that maybe a blog would be useful to focus on things I'm seeing. After this introduction I'll be making some philosophical comments about Vista.

I hope somebody's listening!