{"id":3888,"date":"2009-07-05T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2009-07-07T02:17:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T09:17:14","slug":"newsletter-501-preview-microsofts-philosophyl-keep-the-lines-coming-and-people-will-believe-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2009\/07\/newsletter-501-preview-microsofts-philosophyl-keep-the-lines-coming-and-people-will-believe-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #501 Preview: Microsoft&#8217;s Philosophy: <br \/>Keep the Lies Coming and People Will Believe Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly a week passes where I don\u2019t have reason to deal with Microsoft\u2019s disreputable behavior. Just the other day, one of the conservative TV pundits was ranting about a stimulus package provision that allows the folks in the state of Washington to build a bridge that connects two campuses at Microsoft\u2019s main headquarters. You\u2019d think the company could afford to pay the multimillion dollar cost themselves, because with their resources it\u2019s chump change.<\/p>\n<p>But somehow this $11 million earmark got stuck in the bill anyway, no doubt due to Microsoft\u2019s intense lobbying of the appropriate politicians. In any case, some are calling it \u201cMicrosoft\u2019s bridge to nowhere,\u201d just where some feel their operating system strategy is going. Well, not financially of course, since I don\u2019t think that anyone will disagree that Windows 7 will probably fare better in the marketplace than Vista.<\/p>\n<p>I say that despite the fact that Vista\u2019s replacement is probably closer to a Service Pack 3 in concept, since most of the changes are designed to make it a leaner, meaner operating system. There is some extra eye candy, of course, the better to entice customers to pay up to hundreds of dollars for a copy. Contrast that with Snow Leopard, which Apple is offering for $29 to those who already have Leopard \u2014 and that\u2019s a heavy proportion of the Mac user base.<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, a heavy proportion of Windows users, particularly the enterprise, are sticking with Windows XP, circa 2001, because Vista was such a mess. While that probably didn\u2019t hurt MIcrosoft\u2019s bottom line all that much, it wasn\u2019t so good from a PR standpoint.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2009\/07\/newsletter-issue-501\/#standpoint\">Story continued in this week&#8217;s Tech Night Owl Newsletter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly a week passes where I don\u2019t have reason to deal with Microsoft\u2019s disreputable behavior. 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