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| Time: 12:21 EST/17:21 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft rolled out on October 12 a partial list of third-party peripherals and software that will be certified to interoperate with Windows Vista in time for the holiday season. But the company still has yet to drop the much bigger shoe, by announcing the Vista coupon deal that it will offer with its PC partners to entice customers to buy Vista-ready machines, even though Vista won't launch officially until January 2007. Microsoft is expected to unveil the technical-guarantee coupon deal later this month. But no one at the Digital Life show, at which Microsoft made the Vista compatibility announcement today, uttered a peep about the pending program. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 10/12/2006 12:51:35 PM |
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After seeing the draconian License Terms of Vista (now released), I for one don't care.
TL |
| #2 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 10/12/2006 1:30:38 PM |
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Lord of Mercy...
Well... as with any company... of about any size... Microsoft has its bean counters and marketing and sales guys positioned squarely in the faces of customers and in between management and certainly, developers. I can share some perspectives here that may help some folks understand just how nastly a problem this is and how it is becoming worse - for all. First off... TL is RIGHTLY pissed. Personally, I have fantasies about walking into former CPA's offices, smiling and then smashing the crud out of their desks with a sledge [just to feel a little better]. Of course I'd already have bought them a new desk, but I want to be clear about how I feel about CPA's - they keep score - always want and need more cash - they can justify anything - they mess up one relationship after another - small business people despise them. After all that, they are essential - like Congress, better than pure anarchy, but not by much. I can only share the perspectives I know - and as a small business owner, it has to be about all of them - many hats and most often with at least one foot bolted to a pivot point in the floor - all at once. Chief cook, engineer, sales guy, and accountant - yummy - how does one do any of these well? The answer must be, "never" - but at all times, "well enough." cont... |
| #3 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 10/12/2006 1:42:10 PM |
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I am sure that at some point, Steve and Co., perhaps melancholy for simpler times, sat around and looked at all of this and thought... "Good God! I don't understand all of this mess, how in H.E. Double-Hockey-Sticks is the average CIO, much less consumer, going to figure this out?"
Clearly, what we are seeing is a classic products and pricing model driven by what is without a doubt a picture perfect marketing and sales plan. I am sure the things fills volumes and is considered a masterpiece by its authors. They without a doubt, had some kind of weird "wrap party" when it was finalized and accepted by upper level management! After that, sales managers, being paid at regular intervals and totally insulated from the realities faced by their customers - namely, cash flow, all lined up to attend internal training. The CPA's hit the golf course to celebrate their mastery of the universe. TL and the rest of us are sitting out here looking at one WGA validation error after another - perhaps wishing we'd remained awake in that *Nix seminar we attended last year.... At the small end of this "E-Ticket" buggy-whip of a ride is the SMB customer and individual consumer - travelling at just under the speed of light and at about 9 g's. Apparent control and sense at the big end where the CPA"s have parked their golf carts, and utter chaos out here where will still classify sensitive internal documents as, "don't deploy to the forward trenches." Cont... This post was edited by lketchum on Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 14:11. |
| #4 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 10/12/2006 2:01:10 PM |
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At this point, I grab my guys, a bad cup of joe and we take a walk. We've solved most challenges that way - be they technical, or business. God thank them for their patience with me... as I can usually offer only one thing... a decision for which I will carry 100% of the consequences and the smallest portion of the up-side - the rightful price for the privilege it is to lead
The bottom line is that people pay us - people like us, to not function as waiters and short order cooks - they pay us to serve as effective chefs that are also qualified nutritionists. They want solutions - not a menu. So, good or bad, north or south, we have to decide, implement and sustain, solutions. We can complain about Micorsoft's emerging policies, but I doubt we can change them - I think I am right in assessing that even the likes of Steve'O himself, are frustrated and at least a little confused. If they are not, it is firstly irrelevant, and second, it is still not likely to change. What to do - sell in groups at the highest denominator. If it is a home with even a hint of SO in the SOHO, sell Ultimate, only. If it is SMB, sell the business editions, only and upsale home based, and or any laptop with Ultimate - because Principals in small business are going to demand the added features as well as Aero and WMC for Vista. In other words, make the complex simple. Decide for them and share why "you" would do what "you" would do. For big OEM's it does not matter - they specialize in volume rip-off's in my opinion and are even better at bait and swicth. The "Mr. Haney's" of modern computing.... "Oh... so you want Lectricity with that PC....?" For enterprises, it matters less to most of us here - they have their own "Big Sticks" with which to leverage Microsoft's sales teams. |
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