What a relief it was this morning to switch on the computer knowing I didn’t have to blog about Microsoft and its product lines. Since Colbert Low has taken over the MS blogs, I’m a free man.

Just keeping up with the shenanigans at Redmond is almost a full-time job. Reading Microsoft Presspass, Mini, IEblog, Ed Bott, scouring Tech.Memorandum, wading through Scoble and his gracious commenters, sampling various Google Alerts and just staying on top of things from a distance of 5000 miles, would tax the patience of a saint.

And what of Windows Vista? Well, it should be named Horizon because however fast you move towards it, it never gets any nearer.

I’ll probably still dip into Scoble’s river of enthusiasm — just to keep my hand in — and retain Memeorandum in the feed reader, but that’s it.

No more Mr Microsoftie. Period.