Microsoft Disses Windows to Sell More Windows

mjasay writes "I stumbled across this fascinating Microsoft tutorial entitled "How to Justify a Desktop Upgrade." It's an attempt to coach IT professionals on how to sell Windows desktop upgrades internally. Apparently the value of Vista is not readily apparent, requiring detailed instructions on how to connive and cajole into an upgrade from XP. The most intriguing thing about the tutorial is its implicit rejection of Microsoft's older technology. Just a few years ago Microsoft was pitching the world on how secure and cool XP was. Now it's telling us largely the opposite, implying that XP is a security threat, costs too much to run, and so on. With Microsoft marketing against itself, perhaps the Mac and Linux camps can simply wait for Microsoft to self-destruct?"

Comments

Re:Is an old version of Linux better than the late

[jayhawk88]

See the difference though is that Linux was perfect from the start because it was free and it wasn't Microsoft, so any changes since then have just been improving on perfection. And anyway Windows sometimes crashed so that made Linux better too. And something about beer. Shut up and drink more Kool-Aid.

Beware XP Service Pack 3?

[Peter Trepan]

In light of this, should we be afraid of Service Pack 3 being designed to make Windows XP worse?