Microsoft is killing itself through stupid marketing techniques
Wednesday, 8 March 2006 | 167 readers so far
Who really needs five different versions of Windows Vista? Only the Microsoft marketing team. Dumb move.
For Home:
Windows Vista Home Premium: Goes beyond basic tasks and helps you get more done around the house while more fully enjoying your digital entertainment.
Windows Vista Ultimate: Includes the full set of business, mobility, and home entertainment features for those who use their PCs at work, at home, and on the road.
Windows Vista Home Basic: Increases reliability, security, and ease of use for entry-level computers and basic tasks such as writing e-mail and surfing the Web.For Business:
Windows Vista Enterprise: Adds protection for sensitive data and helps lower IT costs for large global organizations with highly complex IT infrastructures.
Windows Vista Business: Helps people in organizations of all sizes reduce costs, improve security, increase productivity, and stay better connected.
This is what happens when businesses get top heavy and profit hungry. In the end, only technical people will have any understanding of what the differences between these versions are. No one else cares. They just want the operating system to do the stuff they want it to do and they also want it not to crash or slow down for no reason.
Five versions, five new ways to push people to migrate to other operating systems. Stupid. If Microsoft doesn’t adapt and change it will become the next CP/M. You’ve never heard of CP/M have you? I thought not.
1 March 8th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Kitanis says:
Who really needs five different versions of Windows Vista? Only the Microsoft marketing team. Dumb move.
“Windows Vista Home Premium: Goes beyond basic tasks and helps you get more done around the house while more fully enjoying your digital entertainment.”
Hidden Statement #1
We will OWN your Digital Rights Management for you! We will also ensure that companies will pay us to check your system out at our liesure. Hardware Companies will benefit with our increased hardware requirements to run the operating system.. Heck they might even pay us for the scatch on the back!
“Windows Vista Ultimate”
See Hidden Comment #1
“Windows Vista Home Basic”
“Increases reliability, security”
See Hidden Comment #1
Hidden Comment #2. Oh yeah.. we forget to tell you.. we added a service pack and security upgrade to Vista while in Beta testing.. Those pesky hackers keep us working by plugging the holes we forget to check in development!
Hidden Comment #3. Also we added new desktop features that look really really cool.. they do not affect the function.. but they look really really cool and 3D!!!
“Windows Vista Enterprise”
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I agree with you Trevor.. Microsoft is only doing this to make money.. and its going to work because there is alot of people who are blinded by the cult of microsoft.
2 March 10th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Jeff says:
“Version 1.0 of Microsoft products are never any good,” said Will Smith, editor of Maximum PC magazine.
I agree.
It’s not only true of Microsoft, but any products really.
How many lines of code will Vista have I wonder?