News Bulletin 10 January 2007: Microsoft announced the retirement Jeff Raikes, President of Microsoft Business Division. (Former Vice President for Advertising and Graphics Design at Apple, hired by Microsoft ca. 1981 at about the time - or a very little before - Vista planning began to get started.)

News Bulletin 15 January 2007: Bill Gates announces in his speech at CES his complete withdrawal from participation in the management of Microsoft. (The Vista hole is too deep for even Bill to bail them out - and he wants to make himself completely unavailable?)

Vista is quite clearly an attempt to make "Windows" more "Mac-like" in an attempt to pull in some of the 20% of personal computer users who use Macs. Apparently nobody told them that the 85% of people who use (or used to use) Windows would find Vista to be "a piece of sh*t."

Of course that's all just wild speculation ...

John