Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks?
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| We asked a simple question: what Microsoft product could have used a little
| more polish before release? The answer astounded us. We would just like to
| thank Bill Gates for his honesty and his openness.
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http://gizmodo.com/342920/holy-crap-did-bill-gates-just-say-windows-sucks
Figures from Rex (yesterday):
Days Millions Average/day Rate/Day
30 20 670k 670k
100 40 400k 290k
180 60 330k 250k
300 88 290k 230k
375 100 270k 160k
Vista's 100m sales mark said to hide disappointing results
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| Although Microsoft's opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show outed
| record-setting Windows Vista sales figures, supplemental information suggests
| the software's debut may have been underwhelming in a larger context.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/08/vistas_100m_sales_mark_said_to_hide_disappointing_results.html
http://tinyurl.com/3963ex
Windows Vista "Now Slower and with more Bugs!"
http://whatishittingmenow.blogspot.com/2008/01/windows-vista-now-slower-and-with-more.html
2007: Microsoft's worst year ever.
Related:
Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
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| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however,
| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought
| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm
Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008? Don't Count On It
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| Vista has certainly been slow out of the gate. Sure, Microsoft is putting the
| operating system on newly shipped systems, but Vista sales didn’t benefit
| from the upgrade surge that previous OSes got upon release. A year after it
| began shipping, less than one percent of corporate desktops are running
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| Vista.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/will_windows_vi.html
Windows Vista kicked out of Olympics PCs
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| Microsoft's latest version of Windows is too risky to implement for the
| important computers managing the 2008 Olympic summer games in Beijing, said
| the event's computer supplier and sponsor Lenovo.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/08/08/no.vista.on.olympic.pcs/
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
Interesting comment from CompUSA
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| Every single one of them he said was returned from consumers... and that they
| (CompUSA) couldn't ship them back. As he heard, Microsoft wasn't giving
| credit back for unsold or returned copies... and didn't want the returned
| figures made public... He wouldn't say that every single one of them
| exchanged for a copy of Xp, he didn't know if that was true. So, I asked how
| many boxes did they have. Same glare, followed with a "You do not want to
| know" type statement.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/12/interesting-comment-from-compusa.html
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