Vista is already a sunk cost

Submitted by hogkill on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 9:41am

Making a big flop by investing in Vista's developement does not mean Microsoft should continue to promote it simply because they've already made it.  They are not making as much money doing this as they could be by continuing to support XP.

If Ballmer wasn't so short sited and incompetent he'd be getting his developers and marketers working on "XP Platinum edition".  A more powerful version of XP, incorporating a conservative amount of only the most essential Vista features into it, and the addition of directX 10.

Vista was tarnished at launch and no matter how much they have polished it since, they are foolish to think the public is going to forget about it.  They should just be going with what makes them the most money at the moment.

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Lesson

Submitted by hg2WJW on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 12:40pm

I guess the lesson is that Microsoft doesn't know their shit and can't be trusted. What else is new?

Mike

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I don't think anybody

Submitted by bjoswald on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 9:56am

I don't think anybody reading this is any bit surprised. As previous posters have outlined, the economy is in deep shit, jobs are being cut, and so on. If any major corporation has enough momentum left to stay afloat, it's the huge corporate behemoths that have enough financial anchorage to stay grounded. (Of course I'm talking about Microsoft, but hey, everyone gets a little disconnected now and then.) Expecting a profitable turnout in times like this isn't insane, but expecting one within Microsoft's and Sony's margins are just a little fucking nuts. Considering the fiascos surrounding the PS3 and Vista in conjunction with the horrible economy, it'll be fun to watch these two bicker about who's better. Oh, hell. Who am I kidding? We're already past round one!

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The economy's in the

Submitted by jcollins on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 9:36am

The economy's in the crapper, companies are going out of business, people are losing jobs left and right, states are cutting back their budgets, MS is doing its best to get beyond Vista, cats and dogs living together, it's total anarchy!  And Microsoft expects a 10% growth in the 4'th quarter...  I think someone's a bit disconnected with reality there...

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Run Oblivion on an XBox, and

Submitted by tehR0XX0Rz on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 11:43pm

Run Oblivion on an XBox, and then on a PC. Run GTA IV on the XBox, and then on a PC.

End of story.

You don'tbuy a new rig every 2-3 years to surf the web or edit photos, kids. You can buy a new rig every 2-3 years to keep up with gaming tech.

But why bother these days? Even Epic is going console. Microsoft and Sony are competing so hard, they're pushing the tech  to at least keep pace with the PC.

They've cut their own throats.

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You realize it's not

Submitted by Budgetperson on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 7:35pm

You realize it's not Microsoft's fault that OS'es are bloated? It's the systems' manufactuer's faults for putting a bunch of software on the system. If you build it yourself, I can easily see a $600 PC outperforming an XboX. You might say it's more expensive, but then again it can do a ton of more stuff as well (web browsing, photo/vid editing, google) like the other poster said.

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idk

Submitted by Redace42 on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 7:20pm

i don't 
know if you know this but the xbox, and zune portion of MS is one of
their departments that is actually making money, and i don't think
that the xbox is killing windows. Just because a xbox "can"
out run a pc like u say does not mean that it is stopping sales of
windows. You cant edit photos, movies, torrents stuff, surf the Internet,
ect on the xbox. So i think it is kind of crazy to say that the xbox
is the downfall of windows, and wouldn't you, if in charge of a
company pump more money into some that is bring back money?

 

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Microsoft followed lock step

Submitted by tehR0XX0Rz on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 6:37pm

Microsoft followed lock step after Bill Gates' ego trip called the XBox. Microsoft couldn't settle for having its operating system on nearly every computer on the planet--it had to have a freaking video game machine, too. It had to be the center of all media. Just like Howard Stern.

Real smart: Invest in technology sure to undermine the entire foundation of your company and engage in a tech war to hasten the demise of the only good reason to buy a new PC: To play newer video games.

NOTE TO MICROSOFT: People aren't going to drop $2000 on a PC for the newest version of Microsoft Office. Assholes.

Now a $250 XBox out-performs a $3000 gaming rig, because Windows is bloated to high heaven and no one cares enough about the PC to make a decent port any more.

There goes the driving force behind all those new PC sales. Now they're all playing Gears of War 2 while the PC they bought 6 years ago still runs Office just find under Windows XP.

ANOTHER NOTE TO MICROSOFT: People aren't going to drop $2000 on a PC for an even slower, more bloated version of Windows that nothing works with and only a couple of companies design games for. And it doesn't matter how cool you think the 3D interface is, either, when all our other hardware stops working. Assholes.

But, what the hell. Put another nail in your coffin. Push the XBox 720 out and let's really make sure there's no reason to ever buy a new PC again. I mean, Google will never be too bloated for my old rig.

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Microsoft had predicted a

Submitted by kleinkinstein on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 5:09pm

"Microsoft had predicted a growth of 10 percent to12 percent during the fourth quarter."

Really?  It just shows how dissconnected they are from the real world!

 

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