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Microsoft Pleads With Consumers to Adopt Vista Now

Posted by Zonk on from the our-os-is-so-awesomez dept.

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."

5 of 912 comments (clear)

  1. Personally by Dachannien · · Score: 0, Troll

    Some people may be waiting for compatibility fixes or Service Pack 1 before they upgrade to Vista.

    Others, including myself, are simply waiting for Hell to freeze over.

  2. Re:Slashdot pleads with users to adopt Linux now.. by klingens · · Score: 1, Troll

    Annoy a billionaire... Install Ubuntu today!


    All you do with that, is pleasing another billionaire than usually.
  3. Re:What about the poor interface? by BlueTrin · · Score: 1, Troll

    What about the studies that have demonstrated that the new interface actually cuts down on productivity?

    Do you want to install the interface studies driver ?
    [Cancel] [Allow]

    *WTF, drivers to read a study ???* *Clicking*

    Are you really sure ?
    [Cancel] [Allow]

    *Clicking*

    Reaaaaaaaally ?
    [Cancel] [Allow]

    *Clicking*

    I'm not kidding, I am gonna replace the old drivers with the new ones !!!
    [Cancel] [Allow]

    *Clicking*

    *Loading the study about how Vista users save time with the new interface*
    --
    Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
  4. Here goes: by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bill Gates is the devil.
    Down with the evil empire.
    Ubuntu is so EASY, my grandmother uses it all the time!
    Hmm.. what else...
    Oh yeah, I have a picture of Linus in my whackin' stash.

  5. Re:Um... by elrous0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mac getting the desktops

    No thanks. I still like to build my own systems, with standard parts that I can easily replace and upgrade (I suspect most serious gamers probably feel the same way). I have no interest in joining the cult of Steve, paying for overpriced hardware which I can't even service myself, and being stuck having to buy a whole new system every couple of years.

    They do have cute boxes, though. My girlfriend and that gay guy next door like them.

    --
    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.