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| Nomen Nescio... |
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| Rex Ballard... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:26 pm |
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On Oct 25, 12:56 am, Nomen Nescio <nob... at (no spam) dizum.com> wrote:
Quote: http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=11433&tag=content;col1
They simply renamed it (and changed a few icons and splash screens)!!
Actually, once you close the Windows 7 "Let me show you my features"
application, it's very difficult to tell the difference between
Windows Vista and Windows 7. The color schemes are so similar, the
menu layouts are similar, and the backgrounds are almost identical.
Quote: Windows 7, I HATE IT ALREADY!!!!
Appearantly, you aren't alone. When I pulled into the Staples parking
lot in Piscataway, the parking lot was completely full. I expected to
go into the store and see people waiting in line to take Windows 7 for
a "test drive". I expected to see every register with carts full of
laptops and PCs. Well, it turned out that the parking lot was packed
with people going to the Party City store to get their Halloween
costumes.
In the staples store, there was one young man, about 14-15 years old,
and he was trying to figure out which laptops were running Windows 7
and which ones were running Vista. What was particularly
disconcerting was that there was a Vista machine on final clearance
for $379, and a nearly identically configured Windows 7 machine around
the corner for $429. Both featured 4 gig RAM, 250 gigabyte drive on
Vista, 500 gig on Windows 7, and similar speed dual core pentium
processors. The Vista machine was the last Compaq on the shelf. Is
HP shutting down the Compaq line?
So, less than 5 days after the release of Windows 7, it looks like
Laptops will be sold at a loss already. And it looks like prices will
be crashing from there. It looks like Windows 7 is being perceived by
the public as Vista 2, and a bad remake at that. Kind of like so many
movies where the original wasn't that great, and the sequal is no
where near as good.
I also noticed that the shelves were still nice and full of Windows 7
upgrade packages, and even at the sale price of $119, it looked like
only 2-3 copies had been sold.
Maybe Microsoft should just go back to Windows XP, and offer that as
the $90 upgrade to Windows 7. At least it keep them on the desktop,
even if it's just as a virtualized Linux application.
As I was leaving the store, I asked the manager if they had been
selling any Windows 7, and they said "2 or 3 copies a day". I
remember when Windows 2000 came out and these stores were selling
20-30 copies of Windows 2000 upgrade kits per day, at $200 each. I
remember when people paid $2000 per laptop for Windows XP. |
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| John Fuhrer... |
| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:05 am |
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1. The copies of Windows you see on the shelves are empty boxes. You have to
take the slip of paper to the cashier to get a box with the software in it.
2. Why didn't the 15 year old kid look at the tags next to the computers?
They clearly give all the features including what operating system is
installed.
3. Your subject line says "Windows 7 prices already crashing" yet within
your message you describe completely different laptops, one with a hard
drive that is twice the size, yet only a $50.00 difference in price and then
you go on to say "it looks like prices will be crashing from there".
How do you reach that conclusion?
4. Your story about Windows 2000 is pure bull crap because Windows 2000 was
not marketed as a home system, it was basically ignored by all when it first
released and only became viable after Microsoft attempted to move it into
the home market by having hardware manufacturers write drivers for sound
cards, joysticks and so forth for it.
You seem to be making a lot of this up.
"Rex Ballard" <rex.ballard at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8ce90b21-5416-4130-adc2-851b153f24b7 at (no spam) g31g2000vbr.googlegroups.com...
On Oct 25, 12:56 am, Nomen Nescio <nob... at (no spam) dizum.com> wrote:
Quote: http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=11433&tag=content;col1
They simply renamed it (and changed a few icons and splash screens)!!
Actually, once you close the Windows 7 "Let me show you my features"
application, it's very difficult to tell the difference between
Windows Vista and Windows 7. The color schemes are so similar, the
menu layouts are similar, and the backgrounds are almost identical.
Quote: Windows 7, I HATE IT ALREADY!!!!
Appearantly, you aren't alone. When I pulled into the Staples parking
lot in Piscataway, the parking lot was completely full. I expected to
go into the store and see people waiting in line to take Windows 7 for
a "test drive". I expected to see every register with carts full of
laptops and PCs. Well, it turned out that the parking lot was packed
with people going to the Party City store to get their Halloween
costumes.
In the staples store, there was one young man, about 14-15 years old,
and he was trying to figure out which laptops were running Windows 7
and which ones were running Vista. What was particularly
disconcerting was that there was a Vista machine on final clearance
for $379, and a nearly identically configured Windows 7 machine around
the corner for $429. Both featured 4 gig RAM, 250 gigabyte drive on
Vista, 500 gig on Windows 7, and similar speed dual core pentium
processors. The Vista machine was the last Compaq on the shelf. Is
HP shutting down the Compaq line?
So, less than 5 days after the release of Windows 7, it looks like
Laptops will be sold at a loss already. And it looks like prices will
be crashing from there. It looks like Windows 7 is being perceived by
the public as Vista 2, and a bad remake at that. Kind of like so many
movies where the original wasn't that great, and the sequal is no
where near as good.
I also noticed that the shelves were still nice and full of Windows 7
upgrade packages, and even at the sale price of $119, it looked like
only 2-3 copies had been sold.
Maybe Microsoft should just go back to Windows XP, and offer that as
the $90 upgrade to Windows 7. At least it keep them on the desktop,
even if it's just as a virtualized Linux application.
As I was leaving the store, I asked the manager if they had been
selling any Windows 7, and they said "2 or 3 copies a day". I
remember when Windows 2000 came out and these stores were selling
20-30 copies of Windows 2000 upgrade kits per day, at $200 each. I
remember when people paid $2000 per laptop for Windows XP. |
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