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Well, the long wait is nearly over. Microsoft’s elephantine parturition has produced an heir. Last week the company distributed ‘Release Candidate 1′ (RC1) of Vista, the new incarnation of Windows, to about 5 million favoured customers.

I guess this means Windows Vista is one step closer to being fully realized. Who would have guessed that this mammoth of an operating system would even iron out all the problems which plagued its development. Vista is coming of age and due to ship to consumers early next year with the OS avaliable in November for enterprise and business customers.

Will the next gen windows release mean the end of pesky spyware and virus issues which have been present in practically every version of windows Microsoft has ever released. We’ll have to wait and see, but judging from the two beta releases we’ve seen so far, Microsoft are at least trying to rid it’s flagship product of its problems from the past.

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“Lets face it, not everyone is a tech junkie at this stage in their life (I know that I am not) but the further one gets in their college career, the closer we get to the corporate realm, and it is important to note one of the most interesting tech issue revolutionizing our world, open source programming.”

I have been a big advocate of open source software for a long time and have recommended it to many people as a free alternative to many commercial software which typically costs many hundreds of dollars. Not only is it getting something for a whole lot cheaper, but it is introducing amazing new products into a bloated marketplace in much need of rejuvination which open source software can provide.

Check out the artcle via the ‘read more’ link below, a very interesting read.

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