Read this from his last column at The Wall Street Journal and you will understand why he is the most well paid journalist in the USA:
It’s time for my annual fall computer buyer’s guide, and this year my message is a little unusual.
If you’re thinking of acquiring or giving a new Windows desktop or laptop computer this holiday season, don’t do it.
I suggest that, if at all possible, you wait around 90 days and get that new Windows machine in February. I advise this delay because the Windows world is on the verge of an upheaval. Microsoft is about to replace its tired, insecure Windows XP operating system with the first all-new version of Windows in more than five years.
It’s called Windows Vista, and it’s likely to be more secure and easier to use. But Vista won’t be available until around Jan. 30, 2007.
So, all those brand-new Windows computers you might buy this holiday season will be powered by an operating system that is on its deathbed.
Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991.
Newsweek magazine calls Mr. Mossberg “the most powerful arbiter of consumer tastes in the computer world today.”
Readers love him.
I am too.