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My comment:: MS should swallow their loses with Vista and move on. Vista is
dead and everyone who has an IQ above 100 knows its crap. Frank who has an
IQ below zero and his other fanclub members, like yanaire and spanky think
is the best thing since sliced bread and close their ears to all the world,
bad press, discussions of disgust and ridicule vista has had.
Article>
In the course of our talk, ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan asked me what
I would do to fix Vista's tarnished brand if I were in charge of Microsoft's
marketing for a day. OK, I'll take the job, but on two conditions: First, I
want face time with Steve Ballmer and Steven Sinofsky. Second, I want some
of those dollars Steve was going to fork over to buy Yahoo, because cleaning
up the Vista mess is gonna cost some bucks.
The context of the conversation, of course, is Microsoft's campaign to
"fight back" against Vista's poor reputation and Apple's relentless
Vista-bashing ad series. Mary Jo Foley has more details in her report from
Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston. I'm hearing the same
messages in my conversations with Microsoft executives and product managers.
In classic Microsoft style, they can be distilled into three key points:
* Hardware and software partners weren't ready for the launch. As Mary Jo
reports, Windows honcho Brad Brooks "acknowledged that partners stopped
believing that Microsoft would ever manage to ship Vista and thus didn't
prepare adequately for the launch of the operating system."
* Many of the architectural changes, especially those involving security and
device drivers, caused existing hardware and software to work poorly or not
at all. Most of those issues have been fixed in the past 18 months, and the
exceptions are generally older products whose owners have decided not to
invest in Vista support.
* Windows Vista as it exists today is not the same product that Microsoft
shipped back in November 2006. Service Pack 1 is the biggest fix, of course,
but Microsoft has been delivering bug fixes and compatibility updates
continually via Windows Updates
There's a great deal of truth in that summary, but it's not the whole truth.
It misses the mark dramatically by not acknowledging the negativity in the
market and in the press and confronting it head on. More importantly, it
doesn't include any serious 'fessing up to the series of blunders that
Microsoft has committed over the course of Vista's development and release.
This week one of Microsoft's top executives admitted that the changes in
Vista "broke a lot of things" and "caused . a lot of pain." Usually, that
sort of confession is followed by "I'm sorry" and "Here's what we're going
to do to make up for that pain."
http://keznews.com/4642_How_should_Microsoft_fight_Vista_criticism?
dead and everyone who has an IQ above 100 knows its crap. Frank who has an
IQ below zero and his other fanclub members, like yanaire and spanky think
is the best thing since sliced bread and close their ears to all the world,
bad press, discussions of disgust and ridicule vista has had.
Article>
In the course of our talk, ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan asked me what
I would do to fix Vista's tarnished brand if I were in charge of Microsoft's
marketing for a day. OK, I'll take the job, but on two conditions: First, I
want face time with Steve Ballmer and Steven Sinofsky. Second, I want some
of those dollars Steve was going to fork over to buy Yahoo, because cleaning
up the Vista mess is gonna cost some bucks.
The context of the conversation, of course, is Microsoft's campaign to
"fight back" against Vista's poor reputation and Apple's relentless
Vista-bashing ad series. Mary Jo Foley has more details in her report from
Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston. I'm hearing the same
messages in my conversations with Microsoft executives and product managers.
In classic Microsoft style, they can be distilled into three key points:
* Hardware and software partners weren't ready for the launch. As Mary Jo
reports, Windows honcho Brad Brooks "acknowledged that partners stopped
believing that Microsoft would ever manage to ship Vista and thus didn't
prepare adequately for the launch of the operating system."
* Many of the architectural changes, especially those involving security and
device drivers, caused existing hardware and software to work poorly or not
at all. Most of those issues have been fixed in the past 18 months, and the
exceptions are generally older products whose owners have decided not to
invest in Vista support.
* Windows Vista as it exists today is not the same product that Microsoft
shipped back in November 2006. Service Pack 1 is the biggest fix, of course,
but Microsoft has been delivering bug fixes and compatibility updates
continually via Windows Updates
There's a great deal of truth in that summary, but it's not the whole truth.
It misses the mark dramatically by not acknowledging the negativity in the
market and in the press and confronting it head on. More importantly, it
doesn't include any serious 'fessing up to the series of blunders that
Microsoft has committed over the course of Vista's development and release.
This week one of Microsoft's top executives admitted that the changes in
Vista "broke a lot of things" and "caused . a lot of pain." Usually, that
sort of confession is followed by "I'm sorry" and "Here's what we're going
to do to make up for that pain."
http://keznews.com/4642_How_should_Microsoft_fight_Vista_criticism?
