{"id":7875,"date":"2014-07-26T17:37:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T21:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2014-07-26T17:37:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T21:37:59","slug":"microsoft-wants-you-to-forget-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/microsoft-wants-you-to-forget-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wants you to forget Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft wants you to forget Windows 8<\/h1>\n

Look to Vista for how Redmond will treat Windows 8 as it moves on to the next bright, shiny OS<\/h2>\n

As talk of the next Windows begins to build and some details of what most are calling for now either Windows 9 or Threshold come into focus, it’s worthwhile to take a moment to remember Windows 8.<\/p>\n

Because Microsoft will want everyone to forget it. And we will.<\/p>\n

Unless the Redmond, Wash. technology company radically changes its habits, it will throw Windows 8 down a memory hole even before the successor ships. Just like it made Vista persona non grata in its official messaging in 2009, it will shove Windows 8 so far into the background that we’ll need the Hubble telescope to find it.<\/p>\n

Not that that’s unusual. All companies fake amnesia to a stunning degree, even when what they want to forget — more importantly, what they want customers to forget — was once trumpeted with Joshua’s band. Ford tossed the Edsel into the don’t-mention file, Coca-Cola did the same with New Coke, Apple erased the Performa and Ping from its corporate memory, and IBM would be hard pressed to admit it ever knew the PCjr or OS\/2.<\/p>\n

It’s always about next year’s shiny object, not last year’s.<\/p>\n

Vista redux<\/h3>\n

To see the future for Windows 8, look at how Microsoft treated Windows Vista — the 2007 edition that launched late and quickly garnered negative reviews that painted a reputation from which it never recovered.<\/p>\n

In the months leading up to the launch of Windows 7, Vista’s successor — and a wildly successful one at that — Microsoft came close to banning the word “Vista” from press releases, its most official line of communications to the media, investors, partners and customers.<\/p>\n

From January through October 2009 — the latter was Windows 7’s launch month — Microsoft mentioned “Vista” in just one press release headline or the single-line synopsis accompanying a headline. During the same stretch, Microsoft used “Windows 7” 16 times…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: \u00a0ComputerWorld<\/em> — Click here to read the rest of this article.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft wants you to forget Windows 8 Look to Vista for how Redmond will treat Windows 8 as it moves on to the next bright, shiny OS As talk of the next Windows begins to build and some details of what most are calling for now either Windows 9 or Threshold come into focus, it’s worthwhile to take\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7876,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions\/7876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}