A bit about the author of VistaSucks:

VistaSucks.WordPress.Com is run out of Vancouver, BC Canada by Jay. A windows user of 15 years and former Mac hater/Vista fanboy. Jay is in the process of switching to Mac but is currently still using Windows XP both at home and at work.

Yep Jay, I don’t use Windows at home with one exception – Paltalk cause their development of a Mac web-based service thus far is a joke. I keep it on my two Macs for the RARE occasion I might need it, which is .0001 percent of the time.

He continues:

Before the “hatred phase” was the “loathing phase” which has lasted since Windows 95 and grown steadily with every passing day. Jay has owned (/been owned by) the following versions of Windows: 3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP Home, XP Pro, XP Media Center Ed., Vista Ultimate 64bit Ed.

Jay’s love for his iPod, and iTunes definately had a motivating factor in his desire to switch to Mac but ultimately it was Microsoft’s lack of product quality & stability, and their insultingly high prices that pushed him over to the other side. Apple’s recent “I’m a Mac/I’m a PC” ad campaign was also influential on his decision.

Shhhh…. don’t tell Zach. He thinks people are only influenced by those commercials because they are a pile putrid lies fabricated by Apple.

From Apple Matters:

The gains of Apple TV can all be summed up with two words. No Media.

And I like it, I really really like it.

But they really aren’t doing anything with it as the article notes.

From ZDNet:

Since he came back, Jobs has become the lovable terror of the digital era. He rebooted the company’s computers, with the bubble-shaped iMacs. He took over the nascent digital music business with the achingly simple iPod and well-thought-out iTunes store. He’s come close to the same kind of rethink of an existing device, with the keyless iPhone for mobile communications. The only place he’s stubbed his foot is with the Apple TV, but that can be fixed.

He’s been a one-man wrecking crew. More than two decades after the launch of Macintosh, all the great minds at Microsoft still haven’t caught up with their imitation, Windows. The latest iteration, Vista, has been generally panned. Bill Gates is happy retiring. Jobs and crew, meanwhile, are happier building Snow Leopard – and new ways of remaking more parts of the digital world.

loveable terror, one-man wrecking crew. that’s freakin’ awesome.

Random Sir Steve pic: