- It’s buggy and expensive.

- The UI is inconsistent across applications and clumsily designed.

- You can only reinstall it once and installing it as dual-boot wipes out any other OS. Thanks for assuming the customer is the enemy, Microsoft.

- It offers little that is new or innovative yet you must learn an entirely new interface. Why bother?

Uber-geek Chris Pirillo, a used-to-be die hard Windows user, has more. He is a “nanometer away” from switching all his home PCs to OS X Leopard when it’s released early next year.

BTW, Windows does NOT support more software. Macs can run OS X, Linux, and Windows. That means they run more software than Windows can. Also, the apps we use are increasingly online anyway, so it doesn’t matter which OS you have. (I’m typing and posting this via Ubuntu Linux and FireFox.)

MacDailyNews has thoughtfully archived several geek articles about why Vista will be problematic. I see lots of geeks, including me, now seriously looking for other alternatives a trend that bodes not at all well for Microsoft. If you lose the early adopters and trend setters, you’ve lost something you can never recover, as they have considerable influence over hardware and software sales.

Microsoft has peaked. Vista signals the start of their long, slow slide down.

PS Hey gamers: Vista will be 10-15% slower than XP.

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Toxic dust from the 9/11 cleanup has given some lung problems so serious they can barely speak. They have other health problems too including post-traumatic stress disorder, and their lives will never be the same.

I know two people who helped in the immediate clean-up after 9/11. When asked what it was like they said, in virtually the same words, We saw things no one should ever have to see. One of them was a retired pathologist and had seen any number of grisly corpses during his career. Yet even he was traumatized by what he saw at the 9/11 site.

The two janitors profiled in this article are receiving free medical care and a small workers comp payment. But their health is terrible, and many more like them too.

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