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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Shill 'Analysts' Asked for Press Quotes on Vista

* Roy Schestowitz fired off this tart reply:

> Defending Windows Vista
>
> ,----[Quote  ]
>| Vista hasn't done so well in other year-end reviews. Last week, my former 
>| JupiterResearch colleague Michael Gartenberg observed that "Vista's been 
>| really getting slapped around lately." Oh, is that an understatement.  
> `----
>
> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/defending_windows_vista.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535

My god, this page is even worse than the WordPress-generated page I
looked at earlier, at least in firefox.

Same "line of text is a paragraph" boolshit, plus what looks to me
(without running the page through a syntax checker) a table with no
ending </table> tag and a cell with of 653 pixels.

Anyway:

   As example, Gartenberg linked to a rather ridiculous CNET Crave
   ranking that put Vista on a list of "top ten terrible tech products;"
   I referenced the same listing late last month. It's lame to put Vista
   on a list with stinkers like the late-1990's Apple puck mouse or
   Sinclair C5.

   . . .

   Vista has flaws for sure, but the amount of flogging is unwarranted.
   Vista is labeled bad for not being great.

This is funny, though:

   I offered up my share of Vista criticism, too. But Microsoft had
   already heard most of my complaints, throughout 2006. And my opinion
   of Vista changed later in 2007 as the user experience
   improved---and it is a helluva lot better today than in January.

It is nice that Vista is getting better, but this seems very good
evidence that Microsoft pushed Vista out the door way too soon.

   Microsoft has a huge Windows Vista PR problem, and the company is
   doing little to fix it. Microsoft needs to change Vista perceptions.
   One of the surest ways is advertising. Marketing works. Clever
   marketing works even better.

   . . . Apple rightly understands marketing benefits, while Microsoft
   rests on its laurels, er, monopoly.

   . . .

   Last month, Advertising Age reported that Microsoft was shopping
   around an unnamed $300 million ad campaign. Microsoft had better be
   spending that money on Vista.

> ,----[ Quote ]
>| After only three weeks at Microsoft as an "evangelist," Michael
>| Gartenberg is returning to his old job as vice president and
>| research director at JupiterResearch.
> `----
>
> http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6165381.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news

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Tux rox!

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