Microsoft has made it very clear that it is willing to spend big on Windows 8.
According to Forbes, that figure could be somewhere between $1.5 and $1.8 billion, easily the most money ever spent on marketing an operating system.
Microsoft spend around $600 million on Windows Phone 7 in 2010, and $200 million advertising Windows 95.
The major campaign will launch alongside pre-orders ... [ read the full article ]
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fuck that windows phone crap. i really enjoyed windows mobile 6.5 i could do anything i wanted on that. i was disappointed when they locked down wm7 like apple. then had to convert ringtones and all that crap. i hated it! if wm8 id anything like 7 i dont want it.
Like the family gathering around the hearth at the holidays, I am reminded of the tale I once wrote here in the forums about polishing a turd.
Sticking the best, shiniest wrapping paper & best bow does not mean it's going to be the best gift out of the bunch. Once again, a product has been produced with what the manufacturer wants & not what the consumer may have had in mind or directly called for.
M$ seems to forget they're in the SERVICE industry, not the manufacturing industry.
They will surely need a huge pile of money. It sounds like another Vista where they had trouble giving it away. Users would format their Vista disks and install XP. Now we are going to have to suffer with M$ complaining about pirates stealing W8 so that their sales will be poor.
