What was Windows Vista all about?

While reading this article I came to realize two things: nobody has to upgrade if they don't want to; and people chose not to upgrade to Vista because it didn't offer anything new.

On one hand, over the last decades, not having the latest software (and the hardware to run it) meant you're excluded from the digital and modern world. On the other hand, the newest products always were amazingly new, not just the same old products with a new face (as happens with Vista). Moore's law really has its upsides and downsides, doesn't it?

It'd be really cool, inspite of what happened to the high-end, that the low-end would become ubiquitous. Believe me: it's not.