Anyone throwing a Windows 7 party?

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Marty_J wrote: »

I refer you to the comment from the Guardian article I quoted in my previous post:

Not really sure about the relevancy between the marketing of a product and a mass murderer mass murderer, but hey ho.

Marty_J

anewhope wrote: »

Not really sure about the relevancy between the marketing of a product and a mass murderer, but hey ho.

If I must spell it out: just because someone is talking about something, it doesn't mean they approve of it.

The idea that "any publicity is good publicity" only goes so far.

Leopard

anewhope wrote: »

Not really sure about the relevancy between the marketing of a product and a mass murderer mass murderer, but hey ho.

Try these two: they may assist you:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW2BdMv33cE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3XdOl5YtLg

asininity

I'd throw a party that no one attends for a free copy of 7, I dont want to pay for it and I'm sure the games I like to play will move to it. Well that depends on when the next M$ OS release.

M$'s image is that of an awkward businessman/dad figure who embarrasses themselves and family members at public occasions, obviously they're still doing it nothing new there.

I personally think queuing for things like games consoles, ipods, movies is rather pathetic.

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Marty_J wrote: »

If I must spell it out: just because someone is talking about something, it doesn't mean they approve of it.

The idea that "any publicity is good publicity" only goes so far.

If it reaches it's target audience then it is good publicity no matter how much smack talk gets sniped in from the anti MS crowd. Whatever opinion they have doesn't matter because they were never going to be buying it anyway.

Marty_J

anewhope wrote: »

If it reaches it's target audience then it is good publicity no matter how much smack talk gets sniped in from the anti MS crowd. Whatever opinion they have doesn't matter because they were never going to be buying it anyway.

The core markets for Windows are average home users and businesses.

Businesses certainly aren't going to be throwing Windows 7 parties, and I can't imagine the average home user, who just wants a cheap £400 computer from Dell or PC World, is going be inclined to throw a party to herald the arrival of Windows 7.

Unless there's a large cocktail party technophile market that has hitherto escaped my attention, the whole thing seems something of a pathetic waste of time.

Microsoft spent $300 million advertising Vista, including $10 million spent on a series of ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld which were ultimately pulled before they had all aired (I quite liked those ads, but I think I'm in the minority there).

They don't know how to market themselves, and have resorted to throwing smelly brown stuff at a wall and hoping some of it sticks.