Comments on: Between a rock and a hard place http://www.vladville.com/2008/05/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place.html Vlad Mazek on IT, Business and Technology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mojave Experiment – My Thoughts and consumer perceptions « Andys Techie Blog http://www.vladville.com/2008/05/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place.html/comment-page-1#comment-35614 Mojave Experiment – My Thoughts and consumer perceptions « Andys Techie Blog Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:29:03 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/05/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place.html#comment-35614 [...] not the only person to say this sort of thing but please Microsoft, advertise just a [...] [...] not the only person to say this sort of thing but please Microsoft, advertise just a [...]

]]> By: Dan McCoy http://www.vladville.com/2008/05/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place.html/comment-page-1#comment-33088 Dan McCoy Mon, 19 May 2008 22:35:23 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/05/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place.html#comment-33088 I agree totally. Intel on the other hand agressively markets the world to push their platforms and look what that has done for us. Centrino brought customers (most of which have no clue what they are asking for) in asking for Centrino. I sell equal or more laptops than I do desktops. They pushed mobility. They INSTITUTIONALIZED it. My target market however is no longer home users. How many CEOs and CTOs watch TV at 7PM and say, "Ahh, I am gonna go get me an SBS server from Joe's Computer Shack" after seeing the ad on TV. Instead Microsoft has their partners market this for them. Wonder how many ppl bought Vista Home Premium because everywhere you look on Dell's site "Dell recommends Vista Home Premium." I was on the fence on this one but I have to say that I think MS is right on this one. I agree totally. Intel on the other hand agressively markets the world to push their platforms and look what that has done for us. Centrino brought customers (most of which have no clue what they are asking for) in asking for Centrino. I sell equal or more laptops than I do desktops. They pushed mobility. They INSTITUTIONALIZED it. My target market however is no longer home users. How many CEOs and CTOs watch TV at 7PM and say, “Ahh, I am gonna go get me an SBS server from Joe’s Computer Shack” after seeing the ad on TV. Instead Microsoft has their partners market this for them. Wonder how many ppl bought Vista Home Premium because everywhere you look on Dell’s site “Dell recommends Vista Home Premium.” I was on the fence on this one but I have to say that I think MS is right on this one.

]]> By: kevin beares http://www.vladville.com/2008/05/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place.html/comment-page-1#comment-33017 kevin beares Sat, 17 May 2008 00:07:29 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/05/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place.html#comment-33017 Vlad, Thanks for the props. I continually am pushing to have a broader and deeper conversation with our community. I think you have it right. We are not reaching all of our customers, we are only getting to a percentage of them and that sucks. I think we have a pretty damn good set of products for the SMB Space. We are doing one thing differently with SBS 2008 and EBS 2008. We are hosting public newsgroups now and public feedback now! That is right, anyone who evaluates our RC0 release of SBS and EBS 08 can talk to us on our newsgroup and provide feedback. We aim to really focus on giving feedback on the feedback too. You know, the old back and forth. "I would really like to see this feature". Reply, "thanks for the feedback, we plan to do that in the near future. Can you please tell me more about your business needs so we can better understand how we can help solve that problem? Who knows, maybe we solved it with 2008. Thanks for the feedback. the SBS and / or EBS team." Thanks for the feedback Vlad. We are listening. Your passion for getting us to do the right thing is getting through. Kevin Vlad,

Thanks for the props. I continually am pushing to have a broader and deeper conversation with our community. I think you have it right. We are not reaching all of our customers, we are only getting to a percentage of them and that sucks. I think we have a pretty damn good set of products for the SMB Space. We are doing one thing differently with SBS 2008 and EBS 2008. We are hosting public newsgroups now and public feedback now! That is right, anyone who evaluates our RC0 release of SBS and EBS 08 can talk to us on our newsgroup and provide feedback. We aim to really focus on giving feedback on the feedback too. You know, the old back and forth. “I would really like to see this feature”. Reply, “thanks for the feedback, we plan to do that in the near future. Can you please tell me more about your business needs so we can better understand how we can help solve that problem? Who knows, maybe we solved it with 2008. Thanks for the feedback. the SBS and / or EBS team.”

Thanks for the feedback Vlad. We are listening. Your passion for getting us to do the right thing is getting through.

Kevin

]]> By: Amy Luby http://www.vladville.com/2008/05/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place.html/comment-page-1#comment-32977 Amy Luby Thu, 15 May 2008 22:40:02 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/05/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place.html#comment-32977 Fast Company magazine's cover story for June is about how Microsoft is taking on Apple in the marketing department: https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/FC/FST/spg-preview0608-renfg.jsp?cds_page_id=46751&cds_mag_code=FST&id=1210891002061&lsid=81361736420014451&vid=1&cds_response_key=I8GNFMC2&cds_mag_code=FST Maybe you'll see what you're looking for? ~Amy Fast Company magazine’s cover story for June is about how Microsoft is taking on Apple in the marketing department:

https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/FC/FST/spg-preview0608-renfg.jsp?cds_page_id=46751&cds_mag_code=FST&id=1210891002061&lsid=81361736420014451&vid=1&cds_response_key=I8GNFMC2&cds_mag_code=FST

Maybe you’ll see what you’re looking for? ~Amy

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