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More FUD Please
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| I am not the first to predict Microsoftâs
| demise with Linux to the better. Heck, I am not
| even the first to predict a dramatic drop in a
| 24 month period. Be sure to put Newsweek and
| Techblorge on your list of people who are
| calling doom for the software giant. What makes
| my prediction unique, is I allow you, the
| spectators of this $20 bet, participate in the
| discussion of what will we use on June 30,
| 2011. Now that is community.
|
| [...]
|
| The harder they fight the less resources they
| have to go into product. Customers are running
| away from Microsoft products. Everyday I see
| people dumping Windows for Linux or MacOSX.
| Even former Microsoft apologist, Don Dodge, has
| gone Google. From what I can see, Microsoft is
| shrinking. It would be to Microsoftâs benefit
| to get out of the FUD business and focus on
| selling out of Windows 7. That way it could be
| an example of a successful American company
| like Red Hat instead of General Motors.
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http://whatwillweuse.com/2009/12/23/more-fud-please/
Recent:
Microsoft Doesn't Learn
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| The marketing effort for Windows 7 now
| underway clearly illustrates one thing:
| Microsoft has not learned from the past. For
| some reason, they seem to think that people
| actually care about the features of their
| operating system. The truth is, people donât
| really care. â Windows 7 is likely to follow
| the same fate as Vista.
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http://news.briefing.com/GeneralContent/Investor/Active/ArticlePopup/ArticlePopup.aspx?ArticleId=NS20091124080801AheadOfTheCurve
Windows 7 â Itâs Vista All Over Again
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| âThere you go againâ. The Gipper said it in
| 1982, and Iâm saying it today â but about
| Windows 7, not Jimmy Carter.
|
| Because the more I play with Windows 7, the
| more I see the Vista debacle unfolding all
| over again. The commonly accepted wisdom is
| that Windows 7 is oh-so-much-better than
| Vista. Well, based on my own extensive
| testing, itâs not. Not at all.
|
| First a bit of history. Back in 2006 I was
| editor-in-chief of PC Magazine. Vista was
| coming out and we were pretty darn
| laudatory. Microsoft provided us with new
| hardware, we tested beta versions of Vista,
| and we loved it. Shortly after it shipped,
| alas, the Wow was less Now than Ow. Vista
| sucked upon release to the world for a wide
| range of reasons â not least because the
| networking and audio driver models were
| completely rebuilt in the six months prior
| to release. That led to driver problems,
| along with general instability. When I left
| PC Magazine in 2007, my parting column was
| a bit of an apology â weâd been too easy on
| what turned out to be one of Microsoftâs
| more uneven efforts.
|
| Itâs easy to get snowed. Microsoft provides
| its favored reviewers a steady stream of
| highlights, new versions, and new features
| â along with brand new hardware to run the
| new builds upon. A team of technical
| marketers inside the borg stand at the
| ready â helping the anointed work through,
| and around, any problems that develop
| during testing.
|
| [...]
|
| Weâve seen this story before. Vista was
| overhyped when it came out by everyone from
| PC Magazine to the Wall Street Journal. And
| now Windows 7 is getting the same treatment.
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http://louderback.com/2009/windows-7-its-vista-all-over-again/
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