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● 01.28.09

●● Windows Mobile, Vista, and Zune Injure Microsoft: Time to Go, Say Journalists

Posted in Hardware, Microsoft, Vista, Windows at 2:25 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Zune Death Watch

A reader has just told us that “Windows Vista [is] among the finalists for Fiasco Awards.” This is the Internet page which, according to our source, “was [also] featured in a local newspaper (in printed form, one of the most read in Catalonia).”

=> ↺ the Internet page

The title (in Catalan) reads: “Windows Vista and Second Life compete for the prize to biggest technological fiasco of the year.”

Here is the website, which is open to voting.

=> ↺ the website, which is open to voting

Windows for laptops and desktops (Vista) is not the only version that’s under siege. Microsoft’s distribution of XP for sub-notebooks is costing it dearly, Windows CE is unattractive to developers and Windows Mobile is still lagging.

=> costing it dearly | Windows CE is unattractive to developers

Microsoft-sympathetic writers have already advised Microsoft to drop Windows Mobile [1, 2, 3], which is performing badly. Well, it’s happening again, even though it comes from a Microsoft-bent source (CNET), which adds intensity to the argument:

=> 1 | 2 | 3 | ↺ from a Microsoft-bent source (CNET)

Is it time to ditch Windows Mobile?[...]The biggest problem for Windows Mobile has always been that it’s bloated and runs too slowly.

The Register advocates axing the Zune as well. This sounds familiar and it comes from Mary Jo Foley’s buddy.

=> ↺ axing the Zune as well | familiar

In a season – the Christmas shopping period – when consumer gadgets are supposed to fly off retailers’ shelves, Microsoft’s Zune experienced a stunning $100 drop in revenue, a 54 per cent plunge. Even Microsoft was surprised.

The Register was not alone. A huge number of similar articles were published to express similar opinions. Among them (from this week only):

Follow your muse, Microsoft–get out of hardwareMicrosoft hit by Zune sales crashMicrosoft’s Zune: $100 Million Sales Drop Plus Layoffs Equals QuestionsMicrosoft To Exit the Zune Business?Microsoft Zune Revenue Fall More Than 50% In 2QWhen Will Microsoft Get a Clue?Yes, It’s Time For Microsoft To Kill The Zune (MSFT)Zune Sales Tumble As Microsoft Tries To Compete With Apple iPod

Microsoft denies that we’re seeing the end of the Zune brand, but then again, it also vigorously denied layoffs just a couple of months ago. It lied [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. It routinely lies without reluctance or shame. █

=> 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | lies without reluctance or shame

Tom Davis took this photo of a Zune which was smashed in anger

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