Another month, another Forrester Research report on Windows Vista. But wait! Rather than the negative spin of last month’s report, in which analyst Thomas Mendel opined that Vista was in danger of becoming as big a failure as “New Coke,” this report by analyst Benjamin Gray comes to a different conclusion.
Dissatisfaction with the original version of Windows Vista has prompted an overwhelming majority of users to download and install the operating system’s first service pack, according to a group of researchers. Industry watchers at Devil Mountain Software said 86% of Vista users had installed SP1 as of the end of July, compared to the 69% of Vista users that were running SP1 at the end of April.
Microsoft using Seinfeld as Vista pitchman in $300 million ad campaign
Vista News 189 Views No Comments »Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will headline Microsoft’s upcoming $300 million Windows Vista ad campaign, along with Chairman Bill Gates, according to anonymous sources quoted in The Wall Street Journal. Seinfeld will get $10 million for his work on the campaign, whose slogan is along the lines of “Windows, Not Walls.”



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