1.5 billion in advertising for windows 8 fails to do the trick

[Shubhank]

cusman said:

dallas said:

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2012/12/11/15-billion-microsoft-spend-fails-do-trick-windows-8-and-surface

Cliff notes

- msft spent 1.5 billion on its advertising budget for windows 8

- Year over year sales are down more than 20% for windows devices

- Balmer jakks off in his office, needs to get to work and fix this

Why do they insist on spending money on Marketing when in the end their new OS is just jammed down consumer throats because they just stop supporting the prior OS. No new machines are sold with prior OS. Things like that...

Apple does the same dang thing, yet spend little to no money "selling" or "marketing" their OS. New for Apple is all about design and function.

New for Microsoft is about, if you manage to learn our new OS UI, then you will have same UI on wide range of devices from Xbox to your Windows phone to your Windows tablet to your PC. I mean seriously. This is why they fail. They compromise simplicity by attempting to create new standards that can apply to multiple form factors of computing devices people might use.

Really a stupid post.

Why do new movies are promoted if the older one are just removed from theaters ? New movies are jammed down people throats.

Why do new music is to be promoted if the older track are just going to be removed from the stores. ? New music is also jammed down people throats ?..

Let me know if you have answer to this.