PCWorld - The personal good news for me recently was that one of my daughters is going back to college. The bad news: She wants a new laptop. Well, back when the economy and my stock portfolio were things of beauty, I would have said sure. But that was then. So I took a look at her old Dell Inspiron, figured out the costs of parts and additional memory, and got it running for about $100. That disappointed my kid but saved me a good $350 over the cost of a new machine.
Here's why I'm telling you this: Some analysts and even a news story here at Infoworld.com are blaming Vista for Microsoft's crummy second quarter and subsequent layoffs.
As much as I wish the folks in Redmond had done a better job building that dog of an OS -- and let us keep XP -- Vista is not to blame. As Bill Clinton used to say, it's the economy, stupid.
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