The man at the helms of affairs at Microsoft, Mr Bill Gates (now said to be the 2nd richest man in the world after Warren Buffet) earlier last year, announced that Windows eXPerience would be off the market by January 30. But as providence would have it, the date has been moved to June 30th. But the question for Nigerians will be: is this a good or bad omen. This will arise from the fact that Windows XP has come to be the favourite operating system for Nigerians. Not even the release of Windows Vista will seperate Nigerians from the love of Windows XP, as Windows Vista has been confirmed not to be "that perfect". Most Windows Vista migrants are hurriedly coming back prodigally to Windows XP.
As Nigerians always survive any condition, pirated copies will always be available. But the official sales and updates of Windows XP will be history, and most likely Windows Vista will be forced on everyone, love it or not.
But this will bring a particular question to mind: why can't Nigerians experiment with other Operating System softwares like Linux or Unix? Our dependence on Microsoft for everything is not encouraging. Better still, we could come up with our own operating system, can't we? (Smiles...)
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