Microsoft Tries Desperately to Turn the Page on Vista at PDC

Posted by rsmiller on Nov 2, 2008 11:50 PM EDT
DaniWeb TechTreasures; By Ron Miller
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All last week, Microsoft was trying desperately to shift the spotlight from Vista, the OS that has become a major liability for the software giant. To that end, Microsoft made a flurry of announcements including Azure, the newly announced cloud platform, the Windows 7 Alpha and a preliminary view of the web-based version of Microsoft Office.

It's clear that Microsoft has thrown in the towel on the woeful Vista. Maybe that's why Microsoft's love fest, aka the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) last week in Los Angeles, provided a 24/7 forum to discuss a future without Vista, but like a political convention (which it resembled), it's time to sweep up the confetti and take a clear-eyed look at what we witnessed.

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