Microsoft does not innovate

It is somewhat ironic that on the same page as this article, there's a link to another El Reg article called "Windows 95 to Windows 7: How Microsoft lost its vision" [http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/10/22/win_95_win_7_vision/] in which Tim Anderson asserts that Windows 7 is basically just an incremental improvement of Windows 95. For Microsoft, the uncomfortable truth is that there are really only a few things that an operating system should do, and Windows already does them. Anything beyond that just gets in the way. It's a platform for launching applications. That's quite a problem if you're trying to wring more and more money out of your customers each year, but it's just fine for a Linux vendor. Make it simple, make it reliable, make it easy to use. I look forward to Ubuntu's expanded presence in the computing scene.

And yes, I've already tried both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10, and found that Ubuntu's release is far more worth getting excited about than Microsoft's.