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Microsoft Pleads With Consumers to Adopt Vista Now
SlinkySausage writes "Microsoft has admitted, in an email to the press, that 'some customers may be waiting to adopt Windows Vista because they've heard rumors about device or application compatibility issues, or because they think they should wait for a service pack release.' The company is now pleading with customers not to wait until the release of SP1 at the end of the year, launching a 'fact rich' program to try to convince them to 'proceed with confidence'. The announcement coincides with an embarrassing double-backflip: Microsoft had pre-briefed journalists that it was going to allow home users to run Vista basic and premium under virtual machines like VMWare, but it changed its mind at the last minute and pulled the announcement."
... it's not like it will actually fix anything, anyway ;-)
I really hate begging. Doubly so when it comes from such a big company.
Now, bribery, I'm ok with... Maybe if they slipped me a couple hundred dollars, I would reconsider their operating system offering.
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Ah, yes... a new version of Windows called SEXP. I predict the name alone will sell a lot of copies of that one. :)
Good list. I can see why Longhorn Vista took so long to "complete."
I think an embarrassing double backflip involves either ripping leotards or landing awkwardly on something pointy. I'm hoping Microsoft has done the latter (mainly because Steve Ballmer in leotards would look something like a mouldy grapefruit in a sock, and that's as far as I want to take the imagery for fear of going to moderation hell).
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1- DRM. And since you apparntly don't want to upgrade your HW in the next 20 years, it won't be such a problem.
2- New MS games DX-10 exclusive games. If they make games so good only 10% of the windows PC users can use them, you definitely should be part of that elite.
3- Aero. No kidding, it if one of the 5 best looking UI of the moment.
4- No need for a good anti-virus. Well, at least no good anti-virus available anyway.
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But what if I don't want to have to take legal action against my operating system?
What if I just want to use it instead?
> The company is now pleading with customers not to wait until the release of SP1
;-)
Who said anything about waiting until SP1?
Slow: "Please wait. And I emphasize the 'Wait'"
Intrusive: "Vista has found a number of movies and MP3 recordings that you may not be licensed for. Please wait while Vista authorizes licenses for these."
Obnoxious: "You've positioned your coffee on the left side of your keyboard this morning instead of the right side. Please wait while Vista reauthorizes your license. Sorry we've screwed up a script on our website so we'll assume the worst and now run your PC in degraded mode."
Dilbertesque: "To help developers test their software under Vista, we won't let you test your software on a virtual machine. Go out and buy a new PC and test your software on there. This will make you more productive, or so the crack-smoking marketing executive who came up with the idea thought."
Tedious: "UAC: An Application is about to do something. Are you sure?"
A Bridge too far: "Congratulations for installing DirectX 10: Only available on Vista! As the 10th person to use DirectX 10 you qualify for a special prize. This will be a DirectX 10 game of your choice, when someone finally decides to write one. (We're hoping a Mac programmer will do it. They like to target obscure niche markets.)"
What's the problem? That's exactly what he said.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
[javac] 100 errors
Congradulations, you win the Well, It Works On My Parent's Computer Award !!!
Remember, this is a step above the Well, It Works On My Computer Award.
You're really on fire right now. Keep it up!
No, for WinFS!
Quit jabbering on the phone while driving. You are not that important.
The real kicker is MS is still profiting off of this because of the people that have to go out and by a copy of XP to make their computer work.
I wonder if they offer special downgrade pricing?