What Went Wrong with Windows Vista?
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| December is the month for year-end reviews. We begin our first 2007 look back
| by offering 10 reasons why Vista failed to "WOW" consumers or businesses.
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| Make no mistake: Despite PR assertions otherwise, Windows Vista did not meet
| Microsoft expectations. The signs are everywhere:
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| * Windows Vista advertising ended almost as abruptly as it started
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| * Microsoft beat the drum a bit too loudly about the number of Vista
| licenses shipped
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| * Windows Ultimate Extras became a real dreamscape of empty promises
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| * Microsoft already is advancing plans for Vista-successor Windows 7
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/what_went_wrong_with_windows_vista.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/yu5u9a
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Ugly view mars Windows Vista birthday
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| According to latest data from NPD, Microsoft is shipping fewer boxed copies
| of Windows Vista than it did Windows XP at the same point in the operating
| systems' lifecycles.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/11/30/vista_birthday/
Tesco sell computers with Ubuntu pre-installed - Linux on the up?
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| Tesco is the world's third largest grocery retailer, and also sells
| everything from clothes to electrical equipment.
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure
%20/2007/10/21/tesco-sell-computers-with-ubuntu-pre-installed-linux-on-the-up/
Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
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| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125
Microsoft Vista Waster
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| Computer and software manufacturers have turned computers from a convenient
| tool to a means of dictating to us what to buy next.
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http://flyingimam.blogspot.com/2007/09/microsoft-vista-waster.html
The Vista Death Watch
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| Microsoft has extended the life of Windows XP because Vista has simply not
| shown any life in the market. We have to begin to ask ourselves if we are
| really looking at Windows Me/2007, destined to be a disdained flop. By all
| estimates the number of Vista installations hovers around the number of Macs
| in use.
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| How did this happen? And what’s going to happen next? Does Microsoft have a
| Plan B? A number of possibilities come to mind, and these things must be
| considered by the company itself.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2209837,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03079TX1K0000584
Vista sales slow despite record MS profit
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| The sales rate of Microsoft's Windows Vista is gradually slowing down as the
| operating system reaches the one-year anniversary of its release to
| businesses, according to the company's latest financial results.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/10/26/vista.sales.rate.slowing/
Nine burning questions about how Vista is really doing
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| Instead, there's so much spin -- from Microsoft, from rivals such
| as Apple Inc., from market analysts pushing research and more research
| -- it would even leave Sasha Cohen dizzy. Here's our attempt to unravel
| this puzzle-shrinkwrapped-in-a-mystery.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9021838
http://tinyurl.com/2u6gzq
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
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| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
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| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
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