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."

Comments

Re:Yeah... Are they going to indemnify us?

[CastrTroy]

Aero. No kidding, it if one of the 5 best looking UI of the moment

How Many UIs are there even? Mac OS, KDE, Gnome, XP, Vista. There only is 5. Sure there's others, Enlightenment, XFCE, and whatever but they aren't quite a popular. Saying that Aero is one of the best 5 UI isn't really saying much.

Re:Shame on Microsoft

[tomstdenis]

My compatibility comments remain valid. Also how many improvements involve extending proprietary designs like XPS, Direct3D, [the audio API], etc.

Sure my comment about what they changed was hyperbole. But the point is many of the changes are either overstated, hard to notice, or just in the wrong direction.

For example, WTF is wrong with a PS standard for printing? I use PS [or EPS] for all of my posters/books that I print and the results are professional and proper. Why doesn't Windows move towards using PS as the format fed to the printer?

Tom