Originally Posted by directhex
i started my belief in a better way with BeOS r4.5 - it was so much cleaner, faster, and more reposnive, than 98. Truth be told, I only got into Linux about 24 months ago - before then, I'd tried it and every time I'd failed to see what it offered me compared to Windows. However, Linux has improved at a phenomenal rate since the early 1990s, and Microsoft will have real issues in beating that rate of improvement, even with Vista. Of course, they'll have no issues with having Vista installed on every new computer until gone 2010, but whether they have the technical advantage by then, in any area, I'd be highly skeptical.