

A venerable OS is laid to rest -- sorta






Gartner analyst




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Let market decide
By androticus on 4/8/2009 9:51:14 PM , Rating: 2
If Microsoft management were smart, they would always actively sell and support at least the last 1 or 2 generations of their OS -- this would provide the maximum incentive for the Windows team to release new versions that are so much better than the previous ones that people want to upgrade. Vista was so slow and bloated, and its technical requirements so high, that only a fraction of the installed XP machines could even consider an upgrade, and even if it was a new machine, it would perform slower -- how lame is that? (And I have Vista 32 and 64 dual booted on a modern machine, and 64 is decidely much slower; conversely, I found my Linux box got faster with Kubuntu 64 on it.)

Corel used to sell two or even 3 versions of Draw at retail at any time -- they'd discount the earlier versions. It was a great marketing ploy, because it covered a larger part of the market, pricewise, and also gave the Draw team competition (even if it was only a previous version of the same product.)

I can't remember the last time Microsoft did ANYTHING original -- can anyone else? Either in terms of products, marketing, management, anything.

