Who cares what’s next in Windows..

Am I alone in being unimpressed by the constant babble about the next version of Windows, new features on the way and the offer of so much more than the current version.

It seems that Microsoft, can’t think who else, has trained users to be not only dissatisfied with the current version of their OS but to hanker after the next version. Needless to say the next version isn’t usually significantly different from the last.

All that really matters in any situation is what you have to use now, be it NT4 (still), Windows 200x or whatever. The issues that really matter now are security, usability and stability. They always will matter but it won’t help solve today’s problem by hoping the next flavour of Windows will solve your problem.