I got an email today from a friend which indicated a story around 8 months back when Windows Vista was being launched and the story was :

“Microsoft’s power in the technology industry, some analysts insist, is waning.It faces a host of rivals from a reinvigorated Apple on the desktop to Web-based challengers like Google, delivering services and software online.But yesterday, on the eve of the arrival of new models of Microsoft’s flagship products, the Windows operating system and the Office programs, the skeptics were overshadowed and drowned out by the opening salvos in the software giant’s marketing campaign.

Windows Vista and Office 2007 start appearing today, available in retail stores as a shrink-wrapped package and shipped on new machines sold by personal computer makers. The new Microsoft offerings were available to large corporate customers at the end of November.

Steven A. Ballmer, the company’s chief executive, called today “the biggest product launch in Microsoft’s history,” and the rollout will be backed by a first-year marketing budget of hundreds of millions of dollars.

New versions of Windows and Office move across the technology industry like a powerful weather system, driving sales of personal computers and other hardware, software and services. The pace is typically gradual but steady, yet the impact on the rest of the industry is significant. “

Now he also quoted a blog stating this “Not one smile in the bunch, never mind ebullience, mania or even pleasant anticipation.”

Disclaimer : The part of this post has been taken from the Nytimes post which was written on January 30th

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