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Microsoft and PC Upgrades: Hasta La Vista | |
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| Time: 08:03 EST/13:03 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: John Quigley | ||
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Updated: Without Vista to encourage PC sales, manufacturers and chip makers could be left hurting in the fourth quarter. Microsoft's plan to delay Windows Vista will bushwhack fourth-quarter PC sales, industry observers say. The software maker on March 21 said it would delay the release of Vista, an upgrade of its Windows operating system that promises PC users a better user interface and improvements in stability and security. | ||
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| #1 By 10557 (71.242.231.133) at 3/23/2006 10:34:09 AM |
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Enough of this nonsense. Here is my prediction:
Businesses will obtain the Gold Build of Vista in November, and we will hear reviews of the finished product by the 1st or 2nd week of December. Consumers *will* have to wait to obtain a boxed copy -- only courtesy of retailers who will begin selling them during Boxing Day sales (Day after Christmas, for you non-Commonwealth nationals). Here is the twist. PC vendors will roll out their newest hardware in time for Christmas, they will include Windows Vista vouchers for free upgrades, and the smaller makers will also include Vista during the same holiday sales -- only the bigger vendors (mail-order/made-to-order) will hold out until January when they give MS the green light to release the boxed copies to everyone worldwide [not just select retailers, and illegal outfits]. The point: everyone will get their shiny new PC, consumers will get upgraded for free (XP SP2 to Vista), and all consumer magazines will be lauding the performance and quality improvements in their editorials and articles thanks to the business versions being released "on time." The end result: by spreading the launch dates, they will extend their marketing and ad campaigns, resulting in less competitive access to media outlets, and increase the "Microsoft" awareness to fully include Office 2007. AND VOILA, a recipe for increased profits with negligible impact on the consumers -- who will not spend Christmas bombarding PC makers' tech support because the HDD crashed, monitor sucks, RAM is buggy, BIOS failed, mouse was missing, keyboard keys broke, and blame Vista instead of shoddy hardware sold to retail. =) [/rant] This post was edited by nasserd on Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 10:36. |
| #2 By 8556 (12.207.222.149) at 3/23/2006 4:18:40 PM |
| How about moving up XP SP3? Having to download 40 updates after a clean install of SP2 sucks. |
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