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Story: Ballmer: Vista needs a bigger marketing budget

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What a waste of money

At least Bill Gates spends his money on worthy causes.
The thing is, if you produce a rubbish product you will get rubbish returns on investment. Microsoft has come out with some classic duffers in their time but Vista has got to be the worst.

Rather than throw millions more at the Ad-men, why not spend it on the product before it's release and get it right. I know its too much to hope for.

Too late for Vista, the damage is done, so what of Windows 7, I fear that if this is to be released early it will be a reincarnation of Vista with a new front end/desktop and name, with some of the glitches and bugs fixed, but by then maybe the compatability gremlin and the Drivers fairy will be on board as well, so the system has a chance of working out of the box.

Maybe they could try spending the money towards a Green System, where they produce a system which doesn't require vast swathes of hardware and software to be scrapped just to be able to use the operating system.

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