In response to the good reception of Apple’s “Mac vs. PC” advertisements, Microsoft has launched a US$30 million advertising blitz. See, that’s why their operating software is so expensive. We are paying for that. Remember how Microsoft tried to irritate or embarrass users of pirated Microsoft Windows? Well, if they don’t charge that bloody high price, no one would want to use pirated copies, right?

Apple is increasing their market share while Microsoft has retired their popular WinXP OS and pushing sales of Windows Vista, which is not received as well by consumers. I don’t know why because I personally prefer Vista. An original single-user license for Vista is sold here in Malaysia at about MYR500, which is approximately 1/5 of the price of a desktop computer. Isn’t it ridiculous?

Hopefully this OS war will force down the prices of Microsoft Vista. That will convert more illegal users of Microsoft products into legal users, not by threatening us with Blackout Wednesday or something similar.

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Microsoft has retired Windows XP from retail and large computer manufacturers but they will still be providing support for the operating system and to smaller system builders and netbook makers like Asus.

It’s a little surprising that Windows XP has served us for seven years already. Doesn’t it feel like it has only be released a few years ago to replace Windows 2000? Some die hard Windows XP users and lovers even set up a petition to Microsoft to bring back Windows XP I think they are just not prepared for “change”.

I have Windows XP on my desktop computers and Windows Vista on my laptop. While at first I was looking to downgrade my Vista to XP, I decided not to and to give VIsta a chance. I have to say that I rather enjoy the improvements that Vista affords. Of course, I am just a normal user who has no plans to push my Operating Systems but as long as they could do what I want, I am fine with it.

Having said that, I would not purposely upgrade my two computers running on Windows XP to Vista. Let’s see if these two computers could last until Windows 7 is released sometime in 2010. Hahaha!