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Microsoft Tries to Polish Vista
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| Microsoft is really taking the gloves off this time. ZDNet is reporting that
| it will spend $500 million to make a powerful statement to its hundreds of
| millions of customers. I imagine the statement would have to go something
| like this:
|
| Windows Vista isn’t really as bad as they say. Honest. Please don’t be
| mad at us. We promise our next operating system will be better. Pinky
| swear.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/microsoft-tries-to-polish-vista/?ref=technology
Recent:
Don’t get too excited about those Vista price cuts
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| Meanwhile, speaking of Microsoft’s consumer Windows strategy, Microsoft
| finally has chosen the advertising agency which will be handling its $300
| million consumer-focused ad campaign.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1229
Related:
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.
|
| 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
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
Microsoft credits Project for "Tech's all-time flop" Award
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| Recently the InfoWorld published their list of "Tech's all-time top 25
| flops". When the bodies were counted, the worst software flop of all time
| went to Vista.
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http://www.vcsonline.com/GoodStuff/BlogProjectManagementSoftwarePMS/tabid/61/EntryID/20/Default.aspx
10 Worst Tech Products of 2007
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| Windows Vista: Where to begin? Vista arrived in stores months late, forced
| untold thousands of users to upgrade their hardware, made mincemeat of
| software and drivers that worked perfectly well in XP, ended up lacking many
| of the bold-faced features we'd been promised, and came saddled with new and
| annoying set of video DRM schemes. At least Vista now boasts an option for
| downgrading back to XP.
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http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/9908
The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007
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| #1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
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| Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,5-c,techindustrytrends/article.html
Vista makes the list as one of the top-10 worst consumer tech products of all
time
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| Pretty bad. But top ten of all time? That's mighty impressive.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9823042-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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