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Story: Windows 7 no certainty for 2009, warns Microsoft

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Vista Service Pack 2

I tried to figure out what MS "division" Mr V was in. Then his ID popped out---
' Veghte also said the economy is factoring into his marketing plans for Windows, which is in the middle of an advertising push initially estimated at several hundred million dollars over several years.'

He's a marketing manager. Great. I guess the lesson of Visaster didn't really sink in. He's already "teasing" the market by clouding up the expected delivery date. (Using the excuse that we won't release it until its ready was the exact same excuse used for Vista's delay until after the Christmas season. They should have waited another year to release Vista!)

We already know the stockholders are screaming for a return to their double digit stock price growth. Oh wait a minute, a lot of the Microsoft employees are stockholders! (That's normally a conflict of interest in other sectors of society and commerce. Stock options should be counted as pay! They start having to pay income tax on the options then they wouldn't sit there in the employee's account accumulating un-relinquished value and stock splits.)

The first public Beta got released 2 days ago then got shutoff due to "unprecedented demand" thereby generating a new level of download frenzy. (Microsoft had to know EXACTLY that the Beta release would generate incredible amounts of download traffic. They DDoS'ed themselves. Using the excuse that they didn't have enough server resources to handle the load cracks me up! Gee I guess a Windows Server 2008 cluster farm just can't handle it!)

Marketing is already going full-tilt to pump-up Windows 7 sales into the stratosphere. (We've seen more PR propaganda for an unreleased operating system product than there ever was for any previous version of Windows. I think I'm going to start calling it Mojave. Mojave is a desert, there's basically nothing there except a lot of heat. Its a mirage. That's the funniest part of that idiotic Vista campaign. Way funnier then the stupid Seinfeld shoe ads.)

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