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by ed woychowsky 2 views

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Do you think that the Windows Vista price cut signifies the beginning of the end of Microsoft's dominance? I tend to think so.

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by dumphrey

Vista figures are no where near what MS planned for. They still Sell XP at full price, and 2000 was full price to the "end," as was.....
They really want people to upgrade from XP. I really do not see that happening. The majority that would upgrade probably have already.

by w2ktechman

this is a sign that MS is actually struggling with their projections about Vista sales, and that all of their previous statements about Vista sales being good/etc. were actually lies (as we all thought). Which means that (as I thought at least) they were trying to hype the Vista sales being strong in order to get more people to move to it.
I guess we all arent as 'dumb' as MS takes us for...

by seanferd

How about just charging what it is worth, rather than seeing what the market will bear?

by dadspad

What I do not like about Vista is its infringing on the rights of the user. I would not care if Vista tied itself to you processor, but change a few peripherals and bing you are down. Recently someone here at TR installed a new software prog, bing Vista went down.

I will continuing to use XP until I feel their is a good replacement OS.

by charliespencer

Vista's not gaining market share because of the price, but because of the perceived quality issues due to a poor marketing strategy targeting upgrade users with inadequate hardware. That hardware will still be inadequate regardless of the price. By now even Joe Homeuser knows better than to upgrade to Vista by installing a retail version on his older hardware. While MS won't increase Vista sales from the price cut, it won't lose those many of users already running XP on those older systems.

by absolutely

[i]Microsoft is "at the beginning of 12
months of the greatest innovation pipeline
we have ever had," Ballmer said. "Vista,
Office, Windows Mobile, [Internet Explorer]
7...I can point to a lot of things. We are
in the middle of the best pipeline we have
ever had as a company."[/i]

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39232432,00.htm

Now, instead of Bill Gates' well-known
efforts to relieve hunger and poverty, the
public face of Microsoft is a potty-mouthed
chair-thrower, who says the current
mediocrity is the best he can do. Put a
fork in it.

by hal 9000

AS Don Steve B just may take out a [b]Contract[/b] on you for those comments.

After all a person willing to throw chairs around in Public is capable of anything in private. :D

Col

by absolutely

Correction: Steve Ballmer is capable of intending & attempting anything, but has still not demonstrated the potential of getting anything right.

:|

by hal 9000

After all the Chair did hit the floor didn't it? :p

Now if it had of just floated away you would be correct. :D

However M$ under Don SteveB has been very vicious in attacking People with their Legal Team and winning. Well not actually winning in Court but Bankrupting the Party who Offended Don SteveB so they took an Economic Decision to pay the money and hope it all goes away.

Not to much a stretch of the imagination to having Don SteveB wanting a more permanent & cheaper solution is it?

Col

by absolutely

His stated intent was to "fscking kill
Google." That's a miss. He should try the
broad side of a barn next. What a dork.

[i]However M$ under Don SteveB has been
very vicious in attacking People with their
Legal Team and winning. Well not actually
winning in Court but Bankrupting the Party
who Offended Don SteveB so they took an
Economic Decision to pay the money and hope
it all goes away.[/i]

Quitters never win.

by seanferd

should move into "Big-Time Wrestling". I think of this every time I read about "the Chair".

Then there is "The Fake Steve Ballmer". Surprised a contract hasn't been taken out on him yet.

by absolutely

M$ survived ME. Is this different? In what
way?

The saying "Fool me once, shame on you;
fool me twice, shame on me" comes to mind.
Any other reasons we should expect that the
public at large will learn this time?
[pre]
Ballmer Peak
[/pre]

by w2ktechman

we that work with computers, not joe blow, the users that need the extra 'glam' in their OS to feel good.

by hal 9000

Will not be any different to what they always have been. Some may even think that they are better off with their New Vista OS and Computer as it has Aero and looks so much better. It's people like this who pay $200.00 for a bottle of $5.00 wine with a different label who can not be helped.

The others are rushing out in droves and Downgrading to XP because it just works better.

But 1 thing about Vista and it has to be the OS here a Trukie was given a New NB by his boss with Vista on it and while stopped he tried to use it. As he has never touched a computer previously and only wants it to play games he couldn't quite figure how to turn it off after he finished playing with it so he just Shut it up stuffed it in its bag and 4 days latter brought it in to be shown how to shut down the Game and then the NB. It was still turned on and running granted Hibernating but still on.

That is some major improvement in the Power Saving Option no matter what anyone says. Pity that it wasn't a useful thing that M$ improved though.

Col

by absolutely

[i]How about just charging what it is
worth, rather than seeing what the market
will bear?[/i]

If I calculate TCO to include insurance
costs, SOx, etc. -- in short, all employee
& software costs that are direct results of
operating system vulnerability ... Huge
quantities of lost data count in TCO,
too ... They would have to pay all users
whose computations have any financial
value. Their revenue would have to come
entirely from video gamers.

by seanferd

I hadn't thought that far ahead.

Actually, I wouldn't be watching, anyway. It might be a wake-up call for regular fans, though.

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