Friday, December 7th 2007
Microsoft Watch Compiles Top Ten Reasons Why Vista Flopped
While Microsoft is putting their PR people to work showing the superiority of Vista to XP, Microsoft Watch is doing their part in educating the public on the other side of things. According to Microsoft Watch, you should not be listening to Microsoft, and know that Vista didn't too very well this year. Here are their reasons why, in order from most to least important. Please follow the source link for the reasons in greater detail.
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Microsoft Watch
- Windows XP stayed in the market too long; everything was built for XP and not ready for Vista.
- No compelling reason to upgrade from XP
- User Interface changes made Vista seem overly complex
- Bad timing; most sales occur between Thanksgiving and Christmas of any given year
- Too many people were in charge of designing Vista
- People were not ready for Vista
- Advertising campaign was confusing, and stopped as abruptly as it started.
- No obvious link between Office 2007 and Windows Vista
- Legal issues with the US Department of Justice and the EU.
- Way too many versions.
70 Comments on Microsoft Watch Compiles Top Ten Reasons Why Vista Flopped
They also kinda dodged the driver support issues.
Though I think people were ready for Vista, it just didn't contain many compelling reasons to upgrade from XP.
Just ask Solaris about how he managed to make his first version of Vista run better its a little buried under some menus but it really helps to make your Vista computer to run much faster:)
Most of the reasons on their list are of marketing nature, which is something MS reps themselves have been using (misleadingly at that) as an excuse to deflect from other more obvious issues. Pure, unfiltered guano. Microsoft’s Vista advertising campaign never stopped. In fact, it’s still going on, albeit with a different spin. If Microsoft spent half the cash on R&D they spent on marketing, they would have a better OS to begin with.
marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10
If people think Vista is a failure because it has ~9.2% market share, what do you think about Apple?
Vista marketing issues are the least of it.
forgot one vistas needs higher end pc to run best
put on an old pc and youll kill the pc and winV as old pcs cant even come close to running vista
also have to say yeah to first comment , no gaming version which again comes down to performance hit vista has on pcs