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Microsoft tried so hard to brand "Vista" as the "most successful operating system ever". A couple of months ago, Mr. Ballmer with their greatest joy and hurah-hurah style claimed that Microsoft has just the best sales performance in its years of history in business; and such happened because of Vista.
Months later -- which bring us into today -- everybody understand one thing: that a truly great product will really become successful, and the rotten-ones, no matter how much "odor" you try to put into it, will still "stinks" at the end.
That's what happen with Vista today. Marketing wise Microsoft keep pushing Vista ahead while preparing it's future release (Windows 7), and at the same time "silently" allow customer (or "give them option") to downgrade their Vista to XP.
As long as the new sales figure still registered under "Vista", it doesn't really matter that actually the customer is downgrading it back to XP!
What a shame!
People doubt Vista for its awful memory hungry requirement. People doubt Vista for its lack of truly creative innovation. People doubt Vista for its incompatibility with current trends.
Vista becomes a "big ugly monsterous alien" in a new changing world. For example: when people and the industry start leaning towards internet-focused sub-note PC that brings in a new smaller size, smaller screen, smaller memory and lower CPU PC model to the market, Vista requires a totally memory hog operating environment that won't fit to any of these! When people and the industry wants simple, easy to use, intuitive, fresh, fascinating looking operating environment, Vista comes up with a "quite OK interface" that resembles alot of Mac OS X copycats -- an imitation that is -- of course -- would never be as quite good as the original one.
We're not sure what really happening at Redmond today. But increasingly we saw how in many innovative fronts, the once great software product company is really now totally lag behind.
Does Vista PHOTOCOPY The Mac Feature ??
We will see what the future will be. Whether the Vista debacle will soon be over. Or whether the fateful transitioning story of Vista actually marks an END of a great (Windows) era, or -- instead -- it is marking a great decisive beginning of the next one.
In the "new" computer world structure that is recently formed, whereby customer and people around the world has possible alternatives of switching their systems and operating environment to the "high end beautiful" Mac OS X, or to adopt the "entry level acceptable" Linux desktop, Microsoft comes up with a "Mac-copy-cat" product and "Memory hog Linux" that is called Vista?
What a real shame that Microsoft today's management seem truly ineffective in driving and running the company forward.
Even worse:
How The Microsoft PR Still Try (So Hard) To Defend Vista
Microsoft, please wake up, face reality as it is and do your great system overhaul & core architectural innovation once more. Unless: this once great company seem to really have a great risk of eventually becoming forgotten, irrelevant, and deem ""doomed"" from the core of its industrial epicenter.
Again and again, may be it is really about time for Mr. Ballmer to step down. (And put Bill Gates back in the line). It has been 8 years since Mr. Ballmer take over, and during this "turmolous" era, Microsoft long term future has never been looked in such a bad mishave shape.
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