year will mark the initial time that Microsoft and its partners can have a chance to create their pitch for why Vista PCs ought to be in your holiday gift lists. kick details off, Microsoft is holding a Windows Vista holiday-preview celebration this week in New york, aimed primarily at the consumer press (people like Vogue, GQ,
office Standard 2010 upgrade key, Cosmo, etc.) Windows officials are here to demonstrate off how much Vista has come in the 12 months since the solution was introduced to manufacturing. rented out a loft overlooking the Hudson to act like a momentary showroom. Rather then trying to show the entire “connected entertainment” scenario, Microsoft’s gone the stripped-down route this time around. There are no Windows Mobile phones, no Windows Home Server systems, no Xboxes and no Zunes to be seen. also was no one,
office Home And Student 2010 activation, thankfully, reciting the “100 Reasons Why Everyone Is So Speechless.” The vacation showcase is minimalist. It’s all about Vista — and gourmet snacks/drinks.) Microsoft watchers like me who cover every twist and turn during the Windows saga, there isn’t much (if anything) new. I’ve seen the new Vista laptops and notebooks from Sony, Dell, HP,
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Of NPD’s list of 100 top-selling Windows apps by unit, 98 are compatible according to Download.com
PCs (desktop and notebook) equipped with Window Vista OS options have increased in U.S. retail shelf presence from 77% in February 2007 to 92% in September 2007.
There are over 41,000 hardware products are now supported on Window Update, up from 23,000 at launch surprised there weren’t any special vacation bundles. Or mysterious new Vista form factors that are set to launch within the next month or so. Or a new advertising campaign (There might be one,
office Standard 32bit key, but we didn’t get to see it, if there is.) It’s probably too insider-baseball for Martha Stewart Living, but I wondered what Microsoft is providing, right now (not next year with Service Pack 1), to produce upgrading to Vista more palatable for techies and non-techies alike. is Microsoft doing to try to blunt the buzz around Apple’s Leopard, which launches on Friday? Or even the buzz around XP, the operating system that’s too good for its own good? wasn’t wowed. I wonder if others who haven’t been eying Vista so closely will be….