In 1995, lines formed outside of stores opening at midnight to sell frenzied customers copies of the the next big thing in home computing... Windows 95. By all accounts, it was a rock star event, the launch of what really took Microsoft into the dominant OS position it's in today. That was almost twelve years ago, and now Microsoft is poised to launch its latest Windows product, which it is trying to sell as as big a technological change as the one seen from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95.
But are people buying it?
The Financial Express has a special report talking about how it feels that Vista may prove wrong the mantra "If you build it, they will come." The theory is that the OS doesn't matter as much as it once did with the shift to Internet-based services and products. They also ask the question of whether or not Windows (and by extension, Microsoft) has perhaps reached its peak, and may be starting its decline.