With the news that Microsoft is recommending that some companies should abandon Vista deployment plans and move instead full-bore into Windows 7, Microsoft is beginning to close the chapter on Vista, one that the company would rather forget. But Vista wasn’t the company’s biggest blunder — Windows Me was far worse.
With Windows 7, Microsoft is making some subtle changes to the ways it tries to thwart piracy. As has been the case for some time, Microsoft’s strategy hinges on requiring a user to electronically verify their copy of the software, a process known as activation, and then the software also periodically validates that a copy of Windows is genuine.
Both Microsoft and Apple are hard at work on the next versions of their respective operating systems. Both companies are in crunch time, coming down to the wire on completing these big software projects. On Monday, Microsoft announced that the incoming data for the Windows 7 Release Candidate was lookin’ good, and that if things continued on track, Win7 could be released to manufacturing three months from now:

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