As an aside, I’m always wary of admiring the emporor’s new clothes so have tended to abstain from the Vista bashing bandwagon, but I’m really interested to hear where people find it deficient. I certainly found it a pain to have to relearn some of new features it introduced and which I thought worked fine on XP), but generally speaking I’ve been very happy with it: I run a webserver and a couple of graphics and video editing programs on my two year old Vista desktop at home, while listening to music, and haven’t had it crash or stall yet (and I haven’t switched it off in about five months either!). It seems that the compatibiltity of third party devices was (perhaps still is?) people’s biggest complaint, although anyone upgrading to Apple’s Snow Leopard is experiencing similar problems (due in part to Apple releasing it a month ahead of schedule). That said, I have various computers at home running Vista, XP, Tiger, Leopard and some Linux OSs, and have to say that while it’s not as good as XP, Vista’s device and program compatibilty still beats the others hands down. But the feeling that it is “hopeless flawed”, as you put it, persists: if you have any further insights, they’d be gratefully received.

Best,
Gareth

I would agree. This is an extraordinarily fast hearing, and at a time when the Federal Circuit would not normally hear cases. I don’t know exactly what that means. Perhaps there is suspicion that the district court got it wrong. Perhaps this is more indicative of the “too big to fail” world we seem to live in presently. When large corporations struggle, or when a product with the popularity of Word is involved, justice seems to move faster than it would for the rest of us. I am not sure I like that trend.

-Gene