posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:03 AM by paul

Windows Vista Story

First hints of Microsoft’s “fight back” ads appear

Windows Vista wasn't defined by Apple's TV commercials, it was misunderstood by the so called Marketing Teams at Microsoft.

Windows Vista was created for the next generation of PC's and not to make your old PC better. I'm writing this blog post on a quad-core Phenom system with two ATI Radeon HD GPU's, so I love Windows Vista.

MAC's only have 8.5% market share, so now Microsoft is going to spend 300 million dollars to counter the perception that MAC's have attained a 60% share of the market rather then promote the next generation of PC's with better graphics then have ever been seen on any Apple machine.

Comments

# re: Windows Vista Story @ Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:59 PM

I agree. I talked with MSFT about helping to launch VISTA, and though it didn't work out (which I think was probably good, at least for me), I have been puzzled by the boo-Vista bandwagon, because what I *saw* in Redmond, running on top machines, was astonishing. When you think about it, MSFT accomplishes some fairly amazing things, writing code that accomodates the boot-up system of 30 year-old legacy machines while simultaneously running new languages and apps.

I'm not much for bandwagons anyway.

Nice post.

Merredith