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According to Shafeen Charania, the director of marketing in Microsoft??s education product group, Microsoft agreed to donate a tablet PC to each of the course’s TFs “to facilitate better teaching outcomes and help students effectively visualize the concepts of computer science...
...build a playlist, like the new “Genius” feature, to go with a chosen song, it should be smarter about auto-selecting media for your device. Another small annoyance is the lack of an unlimited monthly music subscription in iTunes, a choice offered at Microsoft??s Zune Store, among others...
...Furthermore, although Vista sales may increase in the short term as a result of this decision, it may also ultimately hurt Microsoft??s market share. The firm’s few competitors in the operating system market, most notably Apple’s OS X, have been gaining ground in recent months . The scrappy Cupertino-based consumer electronics firm has seen a substantial increase in laptop sales, and has even released a series of advertisements poking fun at Vista’s more intrusive features, such as User Account Control . In these ways, Vista’s shortcomings...
...Finally, Microsoft??s aggressive marketing of Vista already has and will continue to hurt the PC industry as a whole. In late 2006, Microsoft began pushing computer manufacturers to certify various products as “Vista Ready” or “Vista Capable,” when in fact many of these machines were only capable of running a crippled version of the software, which The New York Times deemed to be “too stripped down to be worthwhile.” As a result, the company recently faced a class-action lawsuit...
...better solution to Microsoft??s current woes is to offer the two products side by side, with similar pricing. Considering that over 90 percent of the world’s personal computers run Windows operating systems, it only makes sense that any product sold by Microsoft??especially one as popular as Windows XP—should continue to be offered for sale . With Service Pack 1 for Vista due to be released this month, many of the kinks with the initial release should be ironed out . As such, Vista now has the potential to become...