Imagine having a form of windows that would run on the first versions of the P4 Intel Chip or on a Celeron, or the newer EEE’s and Ultraportables, wouldn’t that be a greener proposition than having to send tons upon tons of old computers to the recycling center (chips, computer chips are one of the most polluting products on earth due to the strict environment controls and exotic materials that are used in making them. The bad thing is that they’re so well made, recycling them to recover the precious metals can only be done through incineration to vaporize most of the packaging just to get to that precious couple of milligrams of silicon, lead or gold (plus many other exotic stuff they now use on these microprocessors).
Microsoft might still have it’s place in one of the most used Operating Systems but it’s time surely is numbered if they fail to follow suit on the open-system bandwagon which can have a basic web-server running on an old Pentium systems up and running in no time. Vista’s a flop (no doubt about it) and the announcement of a new OS from the software giant has put off more from shifting (even with the announcement of the mandatory phase-out of the selling of new machines bundled with XP). The genius of Bill might be needed (even though he has left the helm of the company again to come up with some concoction that would maintain the company’s grip on the industry it has so benefited from. “You see that light flashing in the corner of your eye? That’s your retirement light, and it’s flashing a bit faster every day)!!”