Sam Gentile:

So today's the day. After 5+ years, Windows Vista launches and it seems that there barely is a whimper. In really looking the last two days, there seems to be no real online and blogger buzz, and no real excitement. Where was that vaunted Billion dollar ad campain? Why were there no TV ads? Anything? In other words, we're missing the "wow." It wasn't supposed to like this. What we saw in 2003 was exciting. Robert Scoble was recruiting his Team 99, there was a lot of excitement and many of us in the Microsoft community were truly excited. We were told it was going to be the biggest launch events in history, they were going to spend billions, it would be everywhere, people would be lining up just like Windows 95. What we got in Vista was so much less than in Longhorn 2003.

Later on he explains that he likes Vista, and sees the upgrade as a "no brainer" (Given the obnoxious DRM in Vista, I beg to differ...). Anyway - this was certainly no marketing coup. Vista was years late, and is generating zero buzz. I still want a Macbook Pro, and have less than no interest in Vista - which is not the kind of reaction MS was hoping for.

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