Commentary: The Vista for consumers
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft expects to ship its next operating system, Windows Vista, in time for holiday shopping in 2006. Will consumers care? Not if Microsoft focuses solely on characteristics like security, search and reliability. Instead, the software maker must make sure that consumers feel as if Vista was built just for them, to handle their personal needs: communications, music, photos, home video, television, games or life management. Microsoft must also help hardware makers like Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Intel, and providers like Kodak, Sony and Yahoo, customize Vista and incorporate it into their own end-to-end experiences.