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Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows Vista, has proven to be a tough sell. Faced with lackluster sales and a decidedly chilly reception from the press, garnering first place in PCWorld magazine’s “15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007,” the Redmond-based software giant has responded by deciding to stop offering Vista’s popular predecessor, Windows Experience (XP), for sale in retail and other channels. This move is not only a poorly concealed ploy to boost flagging Vista sales, but is also a policy that will hurt Microsoft...
...Traditionally, Microsoft has allowed older license-holders a fairly lengthy transition period. Customer and corporate licenses for Microsoft Disk Operating System (DOS) 6.xx, one of Microsoft’s most successful products, were available for sale from 1994 to 2001—a staggering seven years . During this period, Windows 95, 98, 98 Second Edition, 2000, and Millennium Edition were all released, but Microsoft continued to offer DOS as a viable option for its clients with older hardware or software needs . Supporting consumers who still use a firm’s older products is not just good business; it also...
...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 a strong product. When Vista is ready to stand on its own, the market, not Microsoft, should decide...
Messier also advised Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity and the New York City-based private-equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in their $5 billion purchase of electrical equipment distributor Rexel, and he counseled computer-services company Unilog in its $1.1 billion sale to Britain's Logica. Other clients include French heavyweights Lagardre, PPR and Schneider Electric...
Apparently there’s a growing marketfor failed, antique technology: last weekon eBay, a Betamax Player was on sale forabout $1300. That same day, there wereabsolutely no adult fi lms available forBetamax on eBay. The reason for this?No such fi lms exist.As few people know, the adult fi lmindustry has had, among other things,a hand in deciding the accepted trendin format rivalries like the famous clashbetween Video Home System (VHS) andBetamax. This sway comes solely fromthe industry’s output. In 2005, adult fi lmsales and rentals amounted to a $4.28 billionrevenue. In that same year...