Let's reinvent the wheel - and charge for it!

Hello Windows Vista - yes, this is the latest in the Windows operating systems series and it will be with us anytime now. I go back to the days before Windows, when you got your hands dirty at the "C prompt", but since then I've gone through Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98 and am currently running Windows XP. Each has been prettier and had more gizmos than its predecessor, but other than that has done basically the same job. So do we really need yet another incarnation? The answer is, no we don't really, but Microsoft apparently do. This is essentially just a money-making exercise on their part (it looks like the minimum it will cost you will be £100). XP works perfectly well, but in a matter of months, if you want the latest software, you'll have to be running Vista. You'd think Bill Gates had got enough dosh already, wouldn't you?