Add in that Microsoft’s Bing search engine seems to be catching on, and things in Redmond may be looking up.īARNICLE: The success that they are likely to have with 7 and coincidentally the success we’ve seen with Bing has really renewed the confidence of the rank-and-file developers at Microsoft to demonstrate that they really can build industry leading products again.
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Global PC sales are expected to improve with the economy and Windows 7 is getting good reviews. And again 80 percent of PCs have not upgraded since Windows XP, it came out eight years ago. Microsoft still dominates the market with a 93 share. I think their product was getting better, but I think more importantly Vista was so weak that it opened the option for an alternative. Why so official? Well some people are giving up on Vista, Mac, because it doesn’t work the way they want it to.īARNICLE: I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Apple’s market share increased at exactly the time Vista came out. The economy didn’t help but neither did Vista. Microsoft’s third-quarter earnings fell 17 percent from 2008. That lack of adoption is critical, according to Brendan Barnicle, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities.īRENDAN BARNICLE: Vista represented the first time that people didn’t make that move from the prior release to the current release and if that were to become a practice, that would be very damaging to the Microsoft model long term.Įven the short-term damage was pretty rough. In fact, only about 20 percent of PCs ever ended up running Vista. You know, they tell their friends and say, “Vista’s horrible, I have so many problems with it.” GEORGE BEIRN: We get a lot of people who come in and say they don’t like Vista or they don’t want it on a new machine. He’s been wrestling with Vista since it was released in January of 07. George Beirn manages Chipheads, a computer repair shop in St. Microsoft’s whole marketing campaign for Windows 7 is built around apologizing for Vista. Vista was slow and overloaded with security prompts. It put out a new operating system and pretty much everyone would buy it. Not nuts, bad actor, just a little shaken up. LAUNCH PARTY VIDEO: Can you believe that Microsoft put the launch of Windows 7 in our hands? Are they nuts or what? Yep, Microsoft wants you to host a party for a computer operating system. Bad actors tell you how fun it is to host a launch party for Windows 7. Have you seen this video online? It’s already a YouTube classic because the unintentional comedy value is off the charts. So you know what? Let’s take a minute or so to tell you about how great it is to host a launch party. The four of us along with host worldwide and you are launching Windows 7 ultimate software. LAUNCH PARTY VIDEO: Hey, welcome to the party. And after some contrite and questionable public relations work.
Windows 7, Microsoft’s new operating system, hits the shelves and millions of PCs after years of development and testing. Microsoft joins the party Friday with its quarterly profit report. Kai Ryssdal: It’s all earnings all the time this week.
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