MICROSOFT keeps invoking Vista 8 every now and then, especially when the reality behind Vista 7 proves too challenging to defend. Microsoft is already hyping up a successor of Vista 7 in order to "freeze the market" (Microsoft's words) while Microsoft's PR puppet at CNET participates in this. The same PR puppet is hyping up Vista 7 sales despite them being flat for manufacturers. They measure only what they want to measure, where they want to measure it, for a period of time that's desirable only based on one particular definition/criteria. We wrote about this early in the month [1, 2] (NPD's fake numbers).
“The same PR puppet is hyping up Vista 7 sales despite them being flat for manufacturers.”It turns out that the latest Vista vapourware comes from Microsoft's very own presentation, so this case of vapourware is clearly intended, not "leaked" (the sense of taboo in a leak adds to mystique and increases attention, so it is often a PR move that's akin to viral marketing).
We recently analysed a Guardian podcast where Microsoft marketing people took credit for other people's ideas that Microsoft is routinely copying. Despite such shameless and baseless marketing hype, The Guardian has published this article which calls Vista 7 "The Hard Sell". From the gentle short rant:
But hang on, how is being in a cab suddenly some kind of a treat? Not only are Microsoft putting tedious features front and centre, the ideas behind them are apparently coming from people so dense they're unaware they've been in a certain kind of vehicle before. "I'm a PC, and Windows 7 was my idea," Crystal boasts.
Honestly, does anyone understand Microsoft’s point in offering upgrade media for Windows 7? As well, what’s with the different versions?
Last time, we discussed the multiple versions of Windows 7 and why it’s largely silly. Now we’re going to discuss the even-sillier idea in all of this: upgrade versus full install.
Seriously, why is Microsoft even going down this road? Are we seriously believing that they’re rewarding prior customers? We’ve already seen that the really good customers (like me) who bought their most expensive version of Vista, are now getting screwed. We Vista Ultimate users aren’t getting a single penny off in upgrading to Windows 7. In the end, the extra money I spent on Vista Ultimate is gone with my move to Windows 7.
The organization's national grassroots director, Gavin McKiernan, delivered a speech to the board stating, "Mr. MacFarlane's Family Guy has consistently presented excessively violent, graphically sexual and profane material. The lead in and lead out of the Seth MacFarlane special were both Family Guy episodes supported by Windows 7."
The Parents Television Council, which aims to protect children from sex, violence and profanity on TV, is calling for Microsoft to stop advertising on the popular show "Family Guy."
Microsoft found out that Seth MacFarlane's one-hour "Family Guy" special was filled with jokes about the Holocaust, Mother Theresa and incest they canceled their sponsorship. Now, the same busybodies that got the FCC to fine ABC for daring to show a bare ass on "NYPD Blue" have asked them to go one step further.
Comments
williami
2009-11-23 02:31:40
As a side note, Microsoft seems to be killing products left and right, maybe because they are slowly loosing money? I think that's so.
Roy Schestowitz
2009-11-23 02:35:35
Needs Sunlight
2009-11-23 08:34:16
Those threats are in the context of threats attempted and carried out:
Scroll down to "Historical Footnote" http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/24/Mixup
Scroll down to "formal complaint" http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/zdnet.html
Scroll down to "get fired" http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-rodovre-municipality-openoffice-will-be-cheaper-to-maintain
Scroll down to "nice side effect" http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/11/another_desperate_attempt_to_d.html
Miguel's comments and the story above about false advertising are a call for use of R.I.C.O. to shutdown the Anti-American racketeering network collectively known as Microsoft.