http://www.computerworld.com/action/...0&pageNumber=4
I think that windows is losing it's universal compatibility advantage. Not much of an advantage if you have to pay for it. I don't know if it's true or not but I've heard that vista will be the last version that will have inherent backwards compatibility. The next version of windows will need an emulator to be backwards compatible just like the move from os 9 to os x. I don't know if this is true but it makes sense. It is creating a major overhead for software to be able to work for all versions because they come out with better ways of doing things but they still have to support the old ways of doing it because of backwards compatibility. The biggest advantage that windows has is the amount of users it has. If mac had that many then the programs would target mac more. This vista affair will switch a lot of people off from using vista because of all of the demands. It may be annoying to not be able to use old software on the new os but in the end it's better.

I suppose that this doesn't go here but I wasn't sure where else to put it.