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:Slashdot pleads with users to adopt Linux now..

[klingens]

Annoy a billionaire... Install Ubuntu today!

All you do with that, is pleasing another billionaire than usually.

Re:What about the poor interface?

[BlueTrin]

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

Are you really sure ?
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Reaaaaaaaally ?
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I'm not kidding, I am gonna replace the old drivers with the new ones !!!
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*Clicking*

*Loading the study about how Vista users save time with the new interface*