Digging their way out of a hole
Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on a $300 million ad campaign touting Windows Vista. The campaign aims to soften the blows Microsoft has suffered at the hands of Apple's witty and at times devastating Mac/PC ads.
Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on a $300 million ad campaign touting Windows Vista. The campaign aims to soften the blows Microsoft has suffered at the hands of Apple's witty and at times devastating Mac/PC ads.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - a mud pie is a mud pie no matter how much marketing you pour into it, it'll never be an freshly-baked, yummy Apple pie.
Vista has been dead on arrival since it launched. It's failure only pales next to the monstrosity that was Windows ME. IT professionals know this and are staying away from Vista in droves.
From ZDNet:
Sixty percent of IT administrators have no plans to deploy Vista despite service pack 1, which fixed the operating systems problems, according to a survey of 1,100 IT managers.
The survey, conducted by KACE, which makes systems management appliances, found that there are 10 percent more holdouts on Vista deployments. Forty two percent of administrators said they would consider alternative operating systems like Linux and Apple to avoid Vista and 92 percent said the release of SP1 didn’t alter their plans.
If I was Microsoft, I'd abandon the Vista name altogether. I'd put some serious effort into taming Vista's obnoxious system requirements, stability and compatibility issues and then re-issue it as Windows 2009 - in two flavours - home and and professional. I'd then concentrate on trying to save the company's reputation by making sure Windows 7 isn't a dud.
And if I was Apple, I'd crank out more Mac/PC ads. Those spots are gold!
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Note: read with a Pirate voice
I just jumped ship and installed Ubuntu on me media center PC. In t' realm o' t' Vista Monster, 20,000 Leagues under Bloat, me Dell P4 2.8ht with 2 gigs o' RAM and a 250 SATA2 ran like it was sailin' inta gale farce winds. With Capitan Tux at t' helm it runs like it's in calm water wit sails full'o wind.
However, once me installed-updated-tweaked etc... I noticed thar was no support for me ATI 550 Pro capture card. After scourin' t' 7 seas I had t' set sail and head for home. Sendin' Ubuntu down to Davy Jones Locker until thar was a mediacenterPVR app that was such a hack job as the ones I found out there.
Ok...enough pirate talk, it hurts my head.
I think the speed of Linux would make an awesome HTPC but without main stream driver support. I know it's getting better but it won't make it into the theater rooms of the lesser nerds* until it does.
*people who can't write their own drivers.
Chris
Corporo-Fascist support.
Looking forward to many more 'inspired' blogs coming from Irving bloggers on Vista.
I'm really not sure what to make of your comment. If you've interpreted the above post as a ringing endorsement of Vista, whoa there big guy. I'm no Vista fan. I really tried to like it but despite its shiny new exterior, it's a bloated, poorly-thought-out and second-rate operating system.
While my preferred platform is a Mac, if I am using a a PC I try and use Ubuntu 8.04 rather than Vista or XP. I have both Vista and XP at home simply for games and for me to be able to keep up with those platforms.