Comments on: Welcome to the Microsoft Store! Are you sure you want to enter? Are you sure? Are you sure? http://atomictango.com/2009/02/14/microsoft-stores/ Creative Strategy for the New Marketspace Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:55:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Doug http://atomictango.com/2009/02/14/microsoft-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Doug Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:45:34 +0000 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/?p=1149#comment-493 @Jeff Lewis from I can't say my company cause then you'd know I was a Microsoft shill. At the time, MS was planning 8 different versions. Now they're not. Either way they only need two versions. I can make an educated choice but that many versions just confuses most consumers and lets me know that they're just trying to make more money. I have a copy of Windows 7 on one of my machines and after playing with it, I actually like it better than Vista but I'm keeping my copy of XP for now. Oh yeah and you'll have to wipe your entire hard drive to upgrade to Windows 7 too. Funny enough but the market agrees with my sentiments: "60 percent of businesses are going to hold off on Windows 7 implementation." http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351198,00.asp Maybe I'll just move to Linux. @Jeff Lewis from I can’t say my company cause then you’d know I was a Microsoft shill.

At the time, MS was planning 8 different versions. Now they’re not. Either way they only need two versions. I can make an educated choice but that many versions just confuses most consumers and lets me know that they’re just trying to make more money.

I have a copy of Windows 7 on one of my machines and after playing with it, I actually like it better than Vista but I’m keeping my copy of XP for now. Oh yeah and you’ll have to wipe your entire hard drive to upgrade to Windows 7 too.

Funny enough but the market agrees with my sentiments: “60 percent of businesses are going to hold off on Windows 7 implementation.” http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351198,00.asp

Maybe I’ll just move to Linux.

]]> By: Jeff Lewis http://atomictango.com/2009/02/14/microsoft-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-492 Jeff Lewis Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:59:30 +0000 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/?p=1149#comment-492 Doug from I Have To Plug My Company: Uh.. for the vast majority of people (like yourself, I suspect) there are exactly two versions that are relevent: Premium Professional. If you're using it for work related things and need to connect to a domain, get Professional. If you don't, or don't know, or don't know what that last sentence meant, then Premium is for you. And if that's too complex for you to figure out? Yeah, maybe you should get a Mac. :) Doug from I Have To Plug My Company:

Uh.. for the vast majority of people (like yourself, I suspect) there are exactly two versions that are relevent:

Premium
Professional.

If you’re using it for work related things and need to connect to a domain, get Professional.

If you don’t, or don’t know, or don’t know what that last sentence meant, then Premium is for you.

And if that’s too complex for you to figure out?

Yeah, maybe you should get a Mac. :)

]]> By: Ana http://atomictango.com/2009/02/14/microsoft-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-432 Ana Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:05:30 +0000 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/?p=1149#comment-432 LOL. I love the line about them fragging her with their joysticks. Illuminating as usual! LOL. I love the line about them fragging her with their joysticks. Illuminating as usual!

]]> By: Doug from Nullvariable Web Consulting http://atomictango.com/2009/02/14/microsoft-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-433 Doug from Nullvariable Web Consulting Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:45:53 +0000 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/?p=1149#comment-433 The idea of these stores blows my mind! The new Windows 7 having more versions than a Starbucks latte is pushing me closer to the idea of spending thousands of dollars to convert my software collection to Mac... MS needs to leap frog Apple in the tech/branding dept like they did with the XBox. They're never going to make it by copying or trying to make a similar product successful. They're only going to beat the iPod when they make something as revolutionary. The Zune is far from it. The idea of these stores blows my mind! The new Windows 7 having more versions than a Starbucks latte is pushing me closer to the idea of spending thousands of dollars to convert my software collection to Mac… MS needs to leap frog Apple in the tech/branding dept like they did with the XBox. They’re never going to make it by copying or trying to make a similar product successful. They’re only going to beat the iPod when they make something as revolutionary. The Zune is far from it.

]]> By: Daneboe http://atomictango.com/2009/02/14/microsoft-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-431 Daneboe Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:39:01 +0000 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/?p=1149#comment-431 The closing lines had me laughing out loud. Good show. The closing lines had me laughing out loud. Good show.

]]> By: Rekha http://atomictango.com/2009/02/14/microsoft-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-430 Rekha Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:16:58 +0000 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/?p=1149#comment-430 This isn't going to help the folks in Redmond if the new operating system is anything like Vista.... This isn’t going to help the folks in Redmond if the new operating system is anything like Vista….

]]> By: Trevor http://atomictango.com/2009/02/14/microsoft-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-434 Trevor Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:48:00 +0000 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/?p=1149#comment-434 It would be cool if apple came out with their own gaming system. It would be cool if apple came out with their own gaming system.

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