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Re: Vista is in trouble

____/ clarjon1 on Thursday 10 January 2008 16:10 : \____

> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:33:49 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
> <snip>
>> 
>> In case you wonder why Vista started 'fast', think channel-stuffing!
> 
> Heh.  I think I've got a pretty good example of that:
> Global, a tv channel from Toronto, had gone on this huge vista promotion
> thing about (IIRC) a month or so before the release date, with
> commercials for programs on their network being displayed either through
> the '3d task switching' or through the new file manager...
> Oddly enough, it didn't last for long, this whole 'powered by Vista'
> thing only lasted 2, 3 months, and it (slowly) disappeared.
> Here's the kicker, however:
> Even though they were saying that everything was 'powered by Vista', if
> you looked carefully at the monitors in the background on their live
> broadcasts, you see that there is NO signs of any vista machines
> anywhere, and one time, I seen, in a reflection of a machine that was
> supposed to be out of view, there was a prominant KDE background...
> Wish I had a PVR or something to have recorded that :)

Microsoft-Watch mentioned this at the time. They sank the adverts shortly after
the hyped-up release. It was a sign of failure.

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