What was the reasons for Windows Vista failure to launch?
You’ve got to hand it to Microsoft. They do get marketing. In what is turning out to be a spectacular example of spinning a negative into a positive, the software company’s missteps and ultimate failure to entice the market with Windows Vista has become a key selling point for the forthcoming Windows 7. Even Microsoft executives, notoriously remiss to admit failure related to their products, are fully acknowledging mistakes made in how Vista was developed, communicated to partners and ultimately brought to market. And while a year ago, many were still pumping the operating system up in the marketplace and talking about a wave of corporate refreshes and partner opportunity, now they are just hoping to move on to the next chapter. Microsoft has good reason to think about cutting its losses. First off, Vista adoption has been so abysmal – by some analyst firm estimates, including Forrester, the operating system is installed in only 10 percent of enterprises today — that the 87 percent of
