Hi Vlad, as a leader in the community I have a admit that I agree that the Microsoft marketing engine has no gas in it, maybe at $4.00 a gallon or a $1.19 a litre they can’t afford to start her up.

I do know one thing is that they are putting a lot of effort on guys like us to do our bit, maybe a bit more than normal.

Maybe we are not making money or at least not as much as we should. I know my marketing campaign around Win a Windows 6 Phone is stalled, the URL is http://www.winawindowsphone.com and I think if it was a blackberry it would have more buzz. Why? I get a tonne of pressure from my peers on why I use a Blackberry, simple reason for me, it works, it uses nearly a tenth of the bandwidth a Mobile 5 or 6 phone does and everyone knows what a Blackberry does.

As for Vista, Yep…more downgrade requests!

Good insight once again

Stuart Crawford
Calgary, AB
http://www.stuartcrawford.com
http://www.thewealthyprofessionals.ca

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Not sure where you are seeing all these macs. In the last year I have seen just three in non-personal use… and in one case the guy had bought it because he liked the look of the box. It was running Vista!

Ian

Vlad

I respect your view but for a Microsoft Partner I’d have thought you were even LESS interested in talking about Windows 7. Do you really want to get people excited about something that is quite a way off and doesn’t even have a public feature set you can talk about at this stage?

I hear you on the Apple and ads side of things and trust me that this is heard loud and clear in Redmond and being addressed…I just don’t think selling vague futures is the answer for either business or consumers.