At long last, Vista is here. But Tuesday’s San Francisco launch of Microsoft’s new computer operating system, which it hopes will revolutionize the technology world, didn’t pack much punch according to Ryan Blitstein in an article today in the Mercury News. The Redmond, Wash., company spent $6 billion developing Windows Vista, plus billions more on Microsoft Office 2007, which officially launched Tuesday. Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2007, the software for e-mail and calendars, was released last month. …

Says Ryan, “So far consumers don’t seem that excited about Vista, especially compared with the much-hailed release of Windows 95, when thousands of buyers lined up at stores for a midnight release. …”