Having foisted the dreadful Windows Vista on a largely unsuspecting public, forcing them to buy higher specified computers to get less performance than they had with XP, and causing vast costs in time and money with its numerous hardware and software compatibility problems, Microsoft are hoping that their ‘new’ Windows 7 OS will get the tills full of bills when it is released, probably later on this year.

The latest word leaking from Microsoft is that those people buying a new computer with Vista from some time in the summer will get a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it is released.

Those who already have Vista will have to fork out again – and since Windows 7 is little more than a Vista Service Pack anyway, some might think this something of a cheek.

Yes, Windows 7 is a major improvement on Vista, but it is only making the worst OS since Windows ME work as it should.

So a very large number of Microsoft customers will have to pay twice to get a useable OS.

Kerching.