In my last post, I mentioned that Ed Bott was one of the last remaining tech journalists that really uses his expertise to dig into the truth. Well, today he fired off his own salvo in the fight against the Vista RDF, this time comparing "Save XP" InfoWorld writer Randal Kennedy's journalistic Alzheimers when it comes to new OS releases:
...Back in 2001, Kennedy and InfoWorld were bashing XP and recommending that their readers stay with Windows 2000. Today, they’re bashing Vista and hawking their “save XP” campaign. But judging by the progression that XP made in six years, all that the Windows Vista architecture needs is time and a hardware replacement cycle or two.
And we’ll be able to read all about in InfoWorld’s “Save Vista” campaign.
I wish I had been covering Windows XP through its development and launch, cause then I could have recycled all of my old XP posts when Vista launched, just like Randal & Co. Could have saved me a lot of time. No worries though, I'll just look forward to seeing what Mr. Kennedy has to say about Vista when Windows "7" comes out. Maybe by then he will have realized that Vista was a decent OS after all.