Comments on: Pent-Up Demand for Vista Apparently Still Pent-Up

By: David H Deans

David H Deans — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:04:52 +0000

I have not used the business edition. In a comparison of Vista with XP, performance issues aside, the Vista user interface still puzzles me — it’s not intuitive to me.

By: Murphy Mac

Murphy Mac — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:27:03 +0000

Sam, I’m sure there are many people happily using Vista. That’s not really the story here.

With the market share that MS enjoys the lopsided Amazon numbers as reported are quite remarkable.

Let’s forget about which OS is “better”. Given these numbers which stock would you rather be holding? One that has leveled out and doesn’t have many growth markets? Or the one with the hot products and a market share that’s climbing rapidly?

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:58:38 +0000

i have used vista since it came out, vista business edition, and it has performed flawlessly

i have xp, vista business (own about 6 computers) and have used computers for 25 years now…all the operating systems and more

vista isn’t that bad, try the business edition

By: Eli Bensky

Eli Bensky — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:44:49 +0000

Quoting Mr. Ballmer, “Perhaps that sentiment (re Vista) will change with the debut of Windows 7, which, according to Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer, is what Vista should have been”

Anything, including children’s wooden blocks, would be better than Vista. Our version of Vista crashed after 6 whole weeks.

I guess that it wasn’t designed for complex operations like email, surfing the web and using Google.

Whether Windows 7 is any good, I won’t know since our next computers will be an Apples.

If five out of ten of Amazon’s best sellers in computers are Apples, maybe it’s because Mr. Ballmer and the rest of Msoft are Apple’s best salespeople.

By: Murphy Mac

Murphy Mac — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:49:49 +0000

Nice find. Maybe not so anecdotal when you think of Apple’s primary customer base: home users.

Microsoft has to be quite close to panic mode.

For people who think panic mode is an overstatement because MS can fall back on their lock of corporate earth: Wrong. MS wants it all. And they owe nothing less to their shareholders.

They’re under attack in the home market by Apple, and they don’t have the products to fight back.

They’re under attack by Google, and their failed attempts to acquire Yahoo! wouldn’t have helped anyway. They’d still be a distant second to Google’s formidable arsenal in the cloud.

MS is fighting a two-front war, not counting linux, and that’s a lot of war for a company used to sitting back on its monopoly.