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."

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Re:No

[Paradise Pete]

"My dog! It's full of rats!" - 2001, A Dyslexic Odyssey

Shouldn't that be 1002?

Why funny?

[marcosdumay]

Just why did people mod the parent funny? That makes no sense.

(I know... I shouldn't expect sense from /. moderation...)

Re:MS's greed is there worse enemy

[Atraxen]

Years back, I had a girlfriend who was studying theater (yes, there's a point coming...) At the time, she was taking a class people around the department mysteriously called BSL. One day, I was hanging out in the green room, talking to some mutual friends about how the sciences have become so specialized that subdisciplines are often unaware of advances in other subdisciplines. She came in part way through the conversation, and out of no where, I brought up BSL (which somewhere along the way I had decided was Back Stage Lighting) as an example of how extreme specialization within a field can eventually lead to its paralysis unless it has some critical mass of generalists. She finally started jumping up and down, yelling at me, dismissing the whole argument because BSL actually meant Basic Stage Lighting. I stood by my cautionary tale though - eventually (unless the case is actively prevented) I suspect that in the world of Theater Architecture there will be a guy who is renowned in his field as an extraordinary designer of lighting systems for the stage wings, prop areas, etc.

She got so mad when I brought up this prediction from that day forward that I think it contributed to the cancellation of the wedding. Still, it turns out I was right. Microsoft has their own BSL department, working on Sound Dialogs and Shut Down Option Menus. (Feels good that BSL is once again something more than a private joke!)