While reading the script for the iWannabes and just browsing around the net, I’m kinda getting the sense that something is wrong and it’s not in the company itself. Let me explain myself. Each day we’re reading that more and more features are being taken off the Windows Vista platform and that each day it resembles more Windows XP with more pretty pictures – I think that Microsoft was actually on to something big, but really big in all of the features that its tearing apart.

What is really affecting Microsoft I think it is the timing and the worldwide situation we are confronting in terms of piracy and what other companies are doing to consumers instead of embrasing this new technology and using it wisely.

Apple did something most extraordinary, when Mac OS X was released – they simply put to rest a whole OS and started to build upon solid ground – UNIX-based to be exact. Windows on Vista and all the features such as P2P support (which by the way, this is used EVERYDAY on MSN and other IM clients) and Bittorrent had something going on – something that OS X and other Operating Systems will most eventually adopt – but in the long run.

Windows Live is one indicative that something big is occuring at Microsoft. Windows Live and IE 7 is the first recognition from part of Microsoft into dealing with other browsers and publically stating it – such as Mozilla Firefox, etc.. I think the current problem is not the software giant, but its partners – yes, the one thing that Microsoft lives from and Apple doesn’t give a crap. Apple dominates its own hardware and software while Microsoft depends on its partners to deploy new technologies.

P2P and Bittorrent have a bright future – even with all of the piracy issues – hey, iTunes is a huge success, shouldn’t we give some credit to the guys at Napster 1.0 for that?

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