Participants in the InformationWeek Weblog Community speak out about Microsoft Windows Vista, offshoring, and e-voting security:

Does Vista Look Better As A Market Play Than As An OS?

• Mark Bench: "I agree with the blogger that Vista is the Last of The Dinosaurs... With all the resources (10K+ programmers for more than 5 years), and no specific direction for its development, Vista is IMO another service pack for XP (with new graphics and other whistles), but with a high premium."

E-Voting: Feds Say One Wicked Programmer Could Bring Down Democracy

• Christopher: "E-Voting will work fine and I can't believe no one has thought of the simple solution.... "

Now That Vista Is the Past, Let's Look At The Future:

• Orlando Smith: "To suggest that either Steve Jobs or Apple's Board of Directors would discard the benefits and assume the burdens set forth, supra, by licensing or selling OS X to run on PCs is an insult to their intelligence and business acumen, and to suggest that they would do such thing is utterly foolish."

• RAB: "Personally, I believe that Apple no longer needs the perceived advantage of being the only provider who can run both OS S and Windows. The moment they went to Intel sealed that deal. The computer became commoditized, like all the other PCs out there, except the software. Apple's software is the advantage, not the hardware."

When Web 2.0 Met The Flat World

• Chris V: "There's a reason not every company has offshored it's development work. Companies realize that developers make better programs when they live in, understand, and genuinely know the culture for which they are developing."

• Mike D: "Chris V is correct but that's why Mexico is becoming a hot destination for not only BPO services but also software development."

Companies Building Massive Employee-Health Data Warehouses -- But Why Should They Have To?

• ebrke: "I buy my own health insurance--I'm single and currently pay $631 per month and that has been going up by 20-25% each year for the past 3 years, word of honor, and I have no chronic conditions or expensive medications. I'm not asking for a handout--I'd settle for just being able to buy into a group so I could lower my costs."