Microsoft Does Not Suggest Vista for Some Users
Microsoft’s marketing division must hate when things like this hits the news services:
“…The least-expensive versions of Vista actually would work in virtualization programs. But Microsoft wants to restrict it because of new security holes spawned by the technology, according to Scott Woodgate, a director in Microsoft’s Vista team.”
link: Microsoft tells some users no on Vista
Ideally for a marketing division, a product should be advertised as ‘universally better’. When the product is not suggested for certain segments of the population, it just creates uncertainty. The perception of the product takes a beating. The hope for the Microsoft marketing people is that the public’s attention span for news items such as this is two or three news cycles and then it is forgotten. Unfortunately, geeks and sites like this keep such news items ‘alive’ much longer.
Catherine Forsythe
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Tags: microsoft, vista, security, marketing, virtualization, catherine forsythe
Did politicians write these articles? They seem to spend a great deal talking about possible security and technical savvy issues when it is glaringly obvious to me that the real impact for requiring higher cost licensing to use virtualization programs is to block home users from retaining all of their older applications for use without Vista.
That is by far the most important reason I have chosen not to upgrade to any version of Vista. Many of the software and hardware devices that I currently rely on for daily use are not supported in Vista, hence the ability to run Vista for some applications and good old WinXp for others would be a fantastic incentive to purchase the “less expensive” Vista license. Perhaps exactly what Micrsoft is worried about. It would be a shame if all of their current Xp users could continue productivity without spending hundreds of dollars buying newer versions of system components and software.