Ballmer blames pirates for poor Vista sales
Ballmer admitted to financial analysts that the predictions for Vista had proved 'overly optimistic' and he blamed the pirates in China, India, Brazil, Russia and other emerging markets.
He said his final solution would be to increase the intensity Windows Genuine Advantage as part of an effort to squeeze more revenue from developing nations.
Ballmer believes that one way Microsoft can bump up Windows sales is to tighten the screws on pirates. "Piracy reduction can be a source of Windows revenue growth, and I think we'll make some piracy improvements this year."
He said that there was software within Windows Genuine Advantage which could be dialled up by the Vole to make it even more tougher for the pirates to take out.
He promised that the Vole would "really ferret through how far we can dial it up, and what that means for customer experience and customer satisfaction".
Of course he is ignoring the fact that a lot of people are not buying Vista because it does not offer much more than XP and Windows Genuine Advantage makes their lives a misery. Cranking up WGA might backfire.
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Inherent problems using Vista
Vista is a poorly designed product. The following is but one of the many examples of its "poorness":If the application program is not invoked with "Run As Administrator", then on existing the program the INI would be saved to the folder below
C:\Users\(UserName)\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files
However, the INI file would be saved to the intended folder, i.e. Program Files\(ProgramFolder), when the program is invoked with "Run As dministrator".
As a result, there tend to be two INI files in existence for the same program. This thus creates a very confusing situation to many users, especially the less experienced.
I...
I think Vista is one of the best Windows released by Microsoft yet. I got Vista within the first month it came out and abandoned XP.To say Vista sales have been hampered by piracy only is not true because many people are convinced that Vista is not as good XP. The other reason why I think Vista is performing bad is because it is too advanced and requires the user to upgrade their hardware or purchase a new computer.