Microsoft acknowledging that Vista is a flop!
The article I am referencing to is here
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=499
I have the content posted below my rant too.
They wouldn't be spending 300 million for advertising after 1.5 years that
vista has been released, to resurrect its image..
the campaigns are pitiful just like the stupid product they are trying to
push into the minds of people who know better.
For example look at what a stupid add is saying trying to deceive people:
"At one point everyone thought the world was flat, Get the facts about
windows Vista"
what a stupid add! LOL
First of all you (Microsoft) are acknowledging that people all over the
world thought indeed that vista was flat, aka FLOP!
And then you are somehow trying to compare a planet which curvature cannot
change with time, with a stupid shitty program
that has been patched so many times and still simply cant work as it should!
The text from the add when clicked sheepishly uncovers some of the truth the
fanboys eagerly try to ignore:
The copy beneath leads off with a sheepish admission:
"When Windows Vista debuted in January 2007, we declared it the best
operating system we had ever made. "Windows Vista is beautiful," The New
York Times raved. It's humbling that millions of you agree.
But we know a few of you were disappointed by your early encounter. Printers
didn't work. Games felt sluggish. You told us-loudly at times-that the
latest Windows wasn't always living up to your high expectations for a
Microsoft product."
Oh...? That's a microsoft add? LOL Why don't you tell the WHOLE truth and
say that everyone KNEW vista is CRAP!???!!!!
MS you are trying to say that OUR perception is somehow faulty with your
stupid "Earth flat" add.
I think that's a SUPER INSULT, when its YOUR stupid perception was what
caused the CRAPPY VISTA in the first place.
I think you should plead for forgiveness and offer windows7 as a FREE
upgrade to everyone who got the stupid vista,
and then we can talk about perception theory.
More here :
"We know that's what some people are saying on the Internet. And in its
early days, Windows Vista did experience some compatibility problems. But
thanks to our industry partners' efforts during the past 18 months, here's
where things stand today."
Sh!t.. vista is as stupid as it was from day one. Simply because the design
was bad, and service packs do patches, they don't redesign the whole OS.
The only way for MS to get out of the MUD is make Windows7 fast and make
sure its 1000 times better than Crapista- Vista!
and more:
"Our goal is always to make each new version of Windows better than the
last. With Windows Vista, we're convinced we succeeded."
Yeah right... you want to say that vista, the lamest OS ever to be created
by man, is better than XP????
Who are you kidding?
Sorry MS, Vista is going down in history as a flop, just as I said +18
months ago it would...
now you can read the whole article below:
I just noticed this teaser on Microsoft's home page:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=499
If this is going to be the overall message of Microsoft's much-vaunted new
$300 million ad campaign, it might be money well spent. According to the
folks at LiveSide, the first ads in the new campaign were previewed at
Microsoft's employees-only Global Exchange conference last week to rave
reviews. As Tim Anderson astutely noted the other day, "Vista is now
actually better than its reputation. That's a marketing issue." Microsoft's
biggest challenge is to get would-be customers to set aside whatever
preconceptions they have and listen to its pitch for Vista. Aligning its
most vocal Vista critics with the Flat Earth Society is a clever way to get
people's attention.
But the bigger job, that of actually changing people's minds, will be easier
said than done. Apple has largely defined Vista's public image so far with
its devastating "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads. Responding directly to those ads
is a losing tactic. Largely thanks to John Hodgman, the humor bar is set
extraordinarily high. Any kind of response ad would legitimize the claims in
those Apple ads and run the significant risk of being seen as lame and
uncool.
And there's no sign that anyone in Redmond is going to go down that road.
Instead, clicking the link on the "World is flat" add leads to a page
headlined, "Windows Vista: Look how far we've come." The copy beneath leads
off with a sheepish admission:
When Windows Vista debuted in January 2007, we declared it the best
operating system we had ever made. "Windows Vista is beautiful," The New
York Times raved. It's humbling that millions of you agree.
But we know a few of you were disappointed by your early encounter. Printers
didn't work. Games felt sluggish. You told us-loudly at times-that the
latest Windows wasn't always living up to your high expectations for a
Microsoft product.
But that's followed quickly by a reinforcement of the theme set out in the
visual above:
We know that's what some people are saying on the Internet. And in its early
days, Windows Vista did experience some compatibility problems. But thanks
to our industry partners' efforts during the past 18 months, here's where
things stand today.
Next up is a bullet list emphasizing the sheer number of Vista-compatible
hardware devices and applications, and it's followed by this ringing defense
aimed at XP enthusiasts:
Windows XP is a great operating system. Its continuing popularity, just shy
of its seventh birthday, makes us proud.
Our goal is always to make each new version of Windows better than the last.
With Windows Vista, we're convinced we succeeded.
That's a pretty good start. The real hard work begins with the messages that
immediately follow this one. Microsoft has to identify the real benefits in
Windows Vista and communicate them clearly and crisply. That's not going to
be any easy task.
Ed Bott is an award-winning technology writer with more than two decades'
experience writing for mainstream media outlets and online publications. See
his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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