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...Windows Vista is the first new version of Microsoft's ubiquitous operating system in five years--and probably the last one over which the world's richest man will preside. Bill Gates, 51, plans to step down as chairman of Microsoft next year to focus on his philanthropic work. He chatted with TIME's Richard Stengel and Lev Grossman about the future of technology, how to fix education and why even he limits his child's use of the computer...
...Vista gives parents a lot of control over how their kids use it. Has being a dad changed the way you think about computing...
...closing thoughts. One, there's a lot of functionality built into Vista - look at the photo editor, which is integrated with the operating system and which works like a stripped-down version of the already-stripped-down Photoshop Elements. Isn't that the kind of anti-competitive integration that got Microsoft into anti-trust court last time around? (Not that they ever left: they're facing hundred-million Euro fines in Europe as we speak...
...Vista is a perfectly respectable new iteration of Windows. They've even, finally, come up with a decent way to make laptops sleep and wake up again, which XP was never very good at. The fact that it took Microsoft over five years and $6 billion dollars to create Vista is - and I mean this quite seriously - an embarrassment to the good name of American innovation, but it's perfectly fine...
...Vista's real test won't be some reviewer checking off features in his lonely office. It will come when millions of Vista users make their way out into the deep waters of the greater Internet ecology, where legions of Internet-based criminals will start banging away on its security features, looking for a way to fool it, break it or hijack it. Translucent borders are all well and good, but out there in the jungle, no one cares how pretty...