Since I still use Win2K Pro on all but one of the few M$ boxes I have, the article was validation for an opinion I have held, and still hold, about the “progress” M$ has made with its operating systems: That Win2K Pro was the last time they actually did anything remotely resembling progress.

I’m still adapting to some of the critical applications I use in the Linux domain, such as GIMP. In spite of its interface being anything but user friendly or intuitive, its not lacking in power… so I’m forcing myself to get familiar with it enough that I can stop using the Windows graphics apps and do all of my work on the Linux platform. My switch to Bluefish and CSSed on Linux has been so complete that the Windows apps I used to rely on so much now seem alien to me. I still have high hopes for Linux, albeit with the acknowledgment that something within its development community needs to make a fundemental change before it can evolve into anything resembling a M$ killer.

In the meantime, early reports seem to indicate that with Win 7 the folks at M$ haven’t changed their approach, much. They’re still gluing feathers to a platypus, calling it a duck, and hoping it will fly.