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Microsoft unveils top reasons to upgrade to Vista

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Over 100 things listed on site to help persuade customers to move from XP to new OS

Microsoft has launched a website detailing its top 100 reasons for upgrading from Windows XP to its new operating system Vista.

Among the top reasons Microsoft gives for customers to upgrade is the improved user interface, including Windows Aero and Windows Flip 3D. It also lists Vista's multimedia capabilities as another one of the reasons that customers should upgrade.


For the full list of 100 reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista, click here and prepare to get your marketing tongues wagging in order to upsell.

Tags: Microsoft, Vista, Xp
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“Mr”
Posted by: David Kruse - Oct 22, 9:15pm

I have just read the first 35 of so reasons and started to loose the will to live. I have found one good thing about Vista and that is you can do a 'disk cleanup' for all users on a PC at the same time and that is not worth upgrading for.


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“Re: Mr. Furfie”
Posted by: Wayne - Oct 26, 1:23pm

Sure would be nice to have a link so we can review the list of the 100 reasons to read.
Thanks


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“Please tell me it's over”
Posted by: omygod imblindnow - Oct 27, 11:45am

please beat it into my head a little more.
vista is more secure,
it's prettier,
it's more secure and prettier
did i mention it's prettier?


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“Re: Please tell me it's over”
Posted by: sadchild - Oct 30, 12:47pm

here are the corrections:

#3: It's the safest version of Windows ever. When you can't boot into it, nobody can hack it.

#17: It's like having Clippy as your own personal anchorman

#23. Because it's like a DRM candy store.

#31. Because your PC lets you know if something's wrong�with a lovely BSOD and a bunch of hex code that means nothing to you.

#36. Get a "do-over" when you need it. In the middle of typing that Word document when the system hard-locks, you can do it all over again.

#41. Because your PC will stay up to date, automatically. Even when you DON'T want the update that is crashing everyone's system, you get it anyway.

#50. Get more out of the web Tabbed Browsing. Something most people have been doing since 2001 with Mozilla.

#54. Stay entertained wherever you go. Swapping stories about Vista crashes is always a laugh riot once you've got a few beers in you.

#63. Help is always available. It usually ends in "Windows Troubleshooter was unable to help you." But we get an A for effort, right?

#100. Because your network is the backbone of your business. That's why whenever your PC makes any sound, your network performance drops to a crawl.


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“Vista is a pain Fiesta”
Posted by: Had Enough - Nov 21, 10:38am

Just FYI, I obv am not one of the consumers MSFT was targetting with this Vista ****, as I'm rebuilding my Laptop with XP after using Vista for 6 mths and not liking it at all. It's for the girls who buy the car for its colour :D


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“Re: Vista is a pain Fiesta”
Posted by: NOT Microsoft Marketing - Jan 28, 2:52pm

Any company who needs to tell you 100 reasons you need to upgrade a year later, need to be honest with the list.

1) Because if you don't buy it, we can't make loads more money
2) Because we're out to help our hardware friends by making your fast XP PC so much slower


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“Re: Vista is a pain Fiesta”
Posted by: Peter Scales - Feb 7, 1:29pm

"Seeing Windows Vista for the first time may leave you searching for words." - from the page linked in the article. Why am I not surprised?


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“Re: Vista is a pain Fiesta”
Posted by: ade_atkin - Feb 7, 5:02pm

As a system builder this is the biggest pile of do do since ME
i would lay off installing my own machine for a few yrs yet untill they start making software i use vista only


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