10.21.09
Watch Microsoft’s Financial Results on Thursday, Ignore the Decoy (Vista 7)
Summary: The real news this week will be Microsoft’s continued decline ahead of lukewarm demand for Vista 7
A COUPLE OF days ago we wrote about the marketing blitz preceding the release of Vista 7. It’s a lot of propaganda that’s mostly paid for. As Microsoft was wishing, almost no publication speaks about Microsoft’s financial results that are due around the very same date. These will be very negative results.
The BBC has just published an article bearing the headline “Why Microsoft can’t afford Windows 7 to fail.”
On Thursday, Microsoft launches Windows 7, the latest version of its operating system. Its success or failure will determine the future of the world’s biggest software company.
This may as well be true, but the verdict is already in because Microsoft's CEO admits that Vista 7 won't sell PCs, unlike Apple (they had marvelous results the other day). In fact, based on this coverage from Australia:
Windows 7 ‘not worth upgrading’
AP Technology Writer Peter Svennson explains Windows 7 is an improvement, but not worth the upgrade.
What will be the impact on Microsoft’s results in subsequent quarters? █
Yuhong Bao said,
October 21, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Personally, even though I have tried to debunk or explain some of the criticism surrounding Windows 7 (for example, I looked at the Louderback review and it seems that the problem was lack of drivers) and I don’t think the launch should be ignored, I am still not going to upgrade.
But yes, I remember that CodeWeavers noticed the trend in MS’s financial results and compared it to it’s own:
http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/20090724/
It should be interesting to compare MS and CodeWeavers’ actual financial results for the next quarter to what CodeWeavers’ projected back then.