I’m here at Radford Studios, part of the CBS Studio City group, hanging with my Mac nerd pals at MacDayLA. I’m actually on the panels today as an expert (whoduhthunk?) and I’m giving Q&A session on virtualizing Windows on the Mac. The first guy to come to my table at breakfast asked me, “Why would anyone want to run Windows when they have a Mac?” I told him that not all developers had “gotten it” just yet. Its rather sad, really. Considering the fact that Microsoft is spiralilng downward in the ranks of quality (let’s just say they don’t have a long way to fall). It seems like 4 of every 5 people I speak to today (no, they’re not all Mac users) have one or more significant complaints about Vista.

It seems that overall people are getting sick of Microsoft and Microsoft isn’t taking notice. People are tired of the high fees for software, the limitations of being held within the Microsoft universe, the glitches and security problems, and the lack of responsiveness from the Redmond corporation. This frustration is being shown in greater numbers of sales of Mac laptop and desktop systems and more and more people moving from Windows to Mac OS X. PC World magazine declared the MacBook Pro as the best laptop on which to run Windows Vista! None of this bodes well for Microsoft and Ballmer’s not doing much to change that perception.

As usual, time will tell the tale. Right now I’m listening to Scott Bourne, a fantastic photographer and a very funny speaker.

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