User:RavynousHunter/MS Marketing

Microsoft Marketing Strategy
This begins with Windows ME, which, if you have yet to acquire any knowledge of this, was inferior in a most extreme way to it's predecessors Win98 and Windows 2000. The general disdain flowed through the media, internet, and word of mouth, causing many people to forgo purchasing it. Instead, they waited until the next version of Windows came out to see if it was any good. Then came Windows XP, which was received as what amounts to a godsend. People bought it like crack-whores going after a 5-ton crack rock, and even more people bought it than the other versions like Win98 and Win2k.

Microsoft saw this and noticed something very peculiar. They saw that releasing a shoddy, under-cooked product would still sell enough to at least break even. Also, they saw that if they sold a far superior product after releasing their crap product before, that more people would buy it, and also add new customers to their market, thus gaining more revenue over versions sold before the crappy one.

This is what was done, in my opinion, to Windows Vista, which many agree, is an inferior product to Windows XP (or even Win2k, for that matter). Once again, we have an ME/XP-type event occurring. Microsoft realizes that people will flock to their next product, which will be indubitably superior to Vista, and will grant them revenues surpassing WinXP, more than a net gain at this point.

While I'm not saying that you shouldn't feed their slightly underhanded marketing ploy, I do advise you to pay attention. Be patient. Only buy every other version of Windows after whatever succeeds Vista. Do this, and you should be free of a buggy, shoddy, resource-whoring OS. Again, don't get me wrong, I'm rather fond of Microsoft's products, they have a good track record for the most part. All I'm saying is, see the pattern, and go with it, you'll save yourself much money and frustration.