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Category / Marketing / Microsoft / Uncategorized

  • Man in Red Long-sleeved Shirt

    ‘People-ready business’ or How to market unstable software

    It seems that Microsoft’s biggest critics, bloggers, are now being asked to write what ‘People-ready business’ means to them as a way to bolster the phrase and Microsoft’s association with business. This strikes me as a flailing attempt to garner support in people’s minds to think of Microsoft as a business software company. Yes, they…

    June 28, 2007
    Marketing, Microsoft, Uncategorized
  • Glass Panels Exterior of the Microsoft Building

    The Empire Strikes Back

    Hello again and welcome to the Microsoft show, the greatest show on earth. Where the marketing department seems to have a bigger budget than the developers. It seems now that they aren’t pleased that so many people are waiting until the big bugs are worked out before upgrading to Vista. They are now about to…

    June 20, 2007
    consumerism, Marketing, Microsoft, reliability, user interface design, Vista
  • Click to Activate Flash Still an Issue?

    It’s amazing to me that sites that rely on Flash for their main navigation have not taken the steps to eliminate the “Click to activate and use this control” messages from their sites. If you haven’t seen this message before you must be avoiding flash sites. To recap: Eolas has a patent dispute with Microsoft,…

    May 18, 2007
    ActiveX, bad design, Browsers, CSS, Flash, good design, IE, Microsoft, web design, web development
  • Close-Up Photography of Lemons

    Why Vista Sucks

    I could begin by sighting dozens of quotes from forums, but that would be too easy, and possibly miss the point. Instead I propose that the problem with Vista has less to do with the installation nightmares, lack of drivers, constant annoyances posing as security, and ridiculous hardware requirements just to run the base OS.…

    March 10, 2007
    bad design, Microsoft, user interface design, Vista
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