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Tie this however with the ads I saw in the NY Subway yesterday, advertising features of Vista and taglined with: "Microsoft Vista - Now with Service Pack 1!"
by rit 18y ago
Tie this however with the ads I saw in the NY Subway yesterday, advertising features of Vista and taglined with:
"Microsoft Vista - Now with Service Pack 1!"
Unfortunately, here's how I see it:
- People who are smart enough to know WTF a Service Pack is already are sold one way or another on Vista. Throwing it out there as a selling point is not likely to sway them either way.
- Most people have no idea what it is.
Microsoft has a huge marketing nightmare on their hands - and now they're backed into a corner because they've forcibly killed off the highly successful XP. It makes me wonder if they shouldn't throw a few more patches in and relaunch the product quietly under a new brand. It's a lot more likely to work than the "Now with Service Pack!" crap.
- kirubakaran 18y agoYes, relaunching XP as 'Windows Minimal' would be great move. Right now, they are their own enemy.
- rit 18y agoI actually meant relaunching Vista with a new brand (I mean, in many cases each release of OS X - esp the last ~2 releases is essentially aservice pack - updated kernel, some UI tweaks and some extra hangon apps and it works great giving it a new name even though it's officially a minor patch level). But, come to think of it - XP would work as well. MS is currently rebranding XP as a 'portable' OS ; they're supplying it to companies making mini laptops like OLPC, Asus [eeepc] and Cloudbooks. I think thats as far as they want to go because they're aware they're cannibalizing Vista business by leaving XP in the market. For me, it just means when I install VMWare on my Macs and Linux boxes that that cracked copy of XP is getting a few more years of use ;)