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08-23-2006, 09:57 AM
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060823/D8JLQOE0B.html
By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is considering discounts or other promotions during the holidays to entice consumers to upgrade their PCs with Windows Vista, even though the new operating system isn't due to hit store shelves until January at the earliest.
Any end-of-the-year effort to spur PC purchases would likely please many retailers and computer manufacturers, who fear disappointing sales during the crucial holiday as consumers wait for the highly anticipated and long-delayed software.
Kevin Kutz, a director in Microsoft's Windows Client Group, confirmed Tuesday that the company is in talks with PC makers and retailers about a range of possible holiday promotions. But he declined to offer other details, such as whether they would apply only to new purchases. ...
*Buy now, work later.... maybe, maybe not....
Well... we have this new OS you will buy eventually, but it isn't ready yet and we don't know when we will release it, or if it will work right, but you can buy it now at a discount and be among the first to try it out so we can find all the problems with it and then soak everyone else for full price after we fix it....
By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is considering discounts or other promotions during the holidays to entice consumers to upgrade their PCs with Windows Vista, even though the new operating system isn't due to hit store shelves until January at the earliest.
Any end-of-the-year effort to spur PC purchases would likely please many retailers and computer manufacturers, who fear disappointing sales during the crucial holiday as consumers wait for the highly anticipated and long-delayed software.
Kevin Kutz, a director in Microsoft's Windows Client Group, confirmed Tuesday that the company is in talks with PC makers and retailers about a range of possible holiday promotions. But he declined to offer other details, such as whether they would apply only to new purchases. ...
*Buy now, work later.... maybe, maybe not....
Well... we have this new OS you will buy eventually, but it isn't ready yet and we don't know when we will release it, or if it will work right, but you can buy it now at a discount and be among the first to try it out so we can find all the problems with it and then soak everyone else for full price after we fix it....