Microsoft is dead, long live GoogApple  Microsoft may own the
desktop, but Apple and Google will bury it everywhere else -- a
long-overdue development, says Cringely  I recently had an
experience that epitomizes everything that's wrong with
Microsoft and why it is rapidly being tossed into the Recycling
Bin of history.  I have a Vista laptop, and as I've recently
learned, I am powerless over it. (Just saying that makes me feel
like I should belong to a 12-step group. But I digress.) A few
months back Vista went completely into the toilet and I had to
restore it, using my Gateway notebook's Recovery with Automatic
Data Backup option.  [ Another Microsoft issue: The head honcho
himself, as Cringely proposes in "Microsoft's real problem is
Ballmer" | Stay up to date on all Robert X. Cringely's
observations with InfoWorld's Notes from the Underground
newsletter. ]  That actually worked. Vista ran again, though
fitfully. And the reason it was so fitful is because that data
backup soaked up nearly half of my notebo