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Dvorak on Microsoft Confusing the Market

Posted by Zonk on from the funny-dvorak-article-blink-and-you'll-miss-it dept.

DigitalDame2 writes "With news of there being 7 Vista editions, PC Magazine Columnist John C. Dvorak takes a hilarious spin on the different Vistas with some recommendations of his own. How about the Vista Porn Edition? All the great porn sites would be pre-bookmarked. Gamer Case-Mod Edition? It can be ultraoptimized for games with a blinking hard-drive light. You can even go as far as the Microsoft Vista for Costco Customers: the Cheaper Edition."

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  1. Ain't it funny? by Lispy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    After years of fragmented Windows versions they finally made the one true merged OS that they had been praising for so long. Windows 2000 was really one OS to rule them all.

    But as soon as XP came out they invented a home edition, a professional edition, delayed the server and splitted up again. Why? And now this.

    It seems it's really all about the money. Sad, in a way. Since, other than with Unix, the most exploits still work cross Windows platform. :)

  2. I want the 10% edition by sane? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'm sick of the MS marketing department trying to hold hostage key bits of functionality to make new versions at higher prices.

    In an age of freely available OS, and the threat that Google will pose with their eventual OS, I want the Windows 10% version - which is guaranteed to cost only 10% of the cost of the system hardware (one off fee). You get, and can use, whatever functionality you want.

    That would ensure that the Windows tax was affordable, and its simple to implement as well.

  3. Pricing by lspd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With news of there being 7 Vista editions...

    There will be more than 7. This doesn't factor in the versions tailored to other nations. Microsoft is just working out the details of an effective price discrimination scheme.

  4. Who's planning on migrating to Vista anyway? by xtal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nobody I am currently working with has any plans whatsoever to migrate to Vista; most are still in the motions of moving to XP, if they even went that far. I'm not sure what huge features Vista is supposed to offer people, but I believe Microsoft may have themselves a real problem there.

    Fragmenting it doesn't seem like a great strategy.

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  5. I wouldn't mind a gamer edition. by sTalking_Goat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    something stripped down, zero flash and optimized for games, it could even be CLI to actually launch the games. It's all I use XP for anyway...

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