As far as Windows 7 is concerned, I'm glad they finally made a decent operating system. I don't think if it was for the competition from Apple, Google, and the Linux providers, they wouldn't have done it. Other companies were ready to take their market share when Vista wasn't exactly the best OS out there. Using Windows 7, and it's finally what Windows should have been the whole time.
For Xbox - Not so much. The main thing I'm glad they did was get Sony back on their toes again when they got lazy at launch of the PS3. I don't think we would have had a great first party from Sony this gen. I don't care for Halo or Gears too much, and as a jRPG fan - I feel a bit screwed over. I bought the thing to play some exclusive jRPGs, which in the end didn't turn out to be exclusive. Their main 2nd party appears to have been dropped from their roster when Cry On was cancelled. I was really looking forward to that game. Right now, the Xbox 360 seems to be the system that my PS3 and PC can do everything.
No matter how arrogant Sony was at the beginning by what PR people said, knowingly putting a defective product and deciding to fix it later is not exactly cool with me.
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY." --Hermann Goering, leading Nazi party member, at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Conservatives: Pushing for a small enough government to be a guest in your living room, or even better - your uterus.
