Just stumbled upon BadVista, an iniciative from the Free Software Foundation, to help increase the awareness of how Windows Vista and all what surrounds it represents a harm to the IT landscape in the long term.

While I do not fully agree with all the opinions of the FSF (particularly regarding the GPLv3), I do stand up and join them in what has to do with Windows Vista. Enough is enough.

Anyway, time to say goodbye to all of you until next year! I’m going tomorrow to Madrid, Spain, to have some time off with Claudia, so I take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2007!

Update, December 29th, 2006: Do not miss this paper: “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection” (local copy if the above link does not work), published by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. I think that you cannot find a more thorough study about the real effects of Microsoft’s policy on the final user experience, the restriction on use and its growing monopoly.