Tomorrow, Microsoft will stop selling Windows XP, forcing everyone onto the villainous Windows Vista.

Interesting strategy.  Rush a broken product to market, leaving a gaping opportunity for the competition.  Then, with customers desperately clinging to the prior version, cut that off too, leaving no credible OS offering.

Could Apple have wished for a kinder gift?

(Prediction:  MS will ease back on their restrictions within a quarter.)

Posted by Philip Haine on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at 8:54 pm.
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