Home premium upgrade
My take is this:
So I guess that the rumors were correct and XP users were rewarded for refusing to upgrade to Vista and users who tested, used, and promoted Vista got the "Fickle Finger of Fate" award again. approved upgrades for Vista Home Premium are to Win7 Home Premium or Win7 Ultimate (No Discount found) and that Win7 Professional is not included in the approved upgrade paths, So...I guess that you will have to purchase/upgrade to Vista business then upgrade to Win7 Professional, OR, down grade to XP pro then upgrade to Win7 professional, or upgrade to Win7 Home Premium and then upgrade again to Professional. Really thought M$ was going to get a clue this time and make a GOOD business decision. Foolish me....I guess all those people who purchased the Professional upgrade must have Vista business or Ultimate. Good job Balmer, you've just got to wonder what advisors this guy is listening to. Give him a chance to get back in many disgruntled(Take note of this term Balmer..Look it up for gods sake) Vista customers good graces (Vista can honestly be classified as good enough after more that 3 years, but since when is merely good enough an except-able goal in software design compared to the vaulted promises from Microsoft when Vista was released or the promises to fix/enhance the product only to find the promises kept in Win7 with the Vista community who supported it getting no special support SP3 or upgrade rewards.) and all it would cost is to allow Vista Home Premium to also go to Professional instead of Home Premium ($49 to Win7 Home Premium or $99 Two Win7 Professional...you still get the full $99 for Professional version right) and do you think these corporate leaches can get it. Not on your life or maybe we should say your LOYALTY to this company who doesn't understand the concept of loyalty. Pay attention class.....IT CUTS BOTH WAYS, AND THE MICROSOFTIES STILL DON'T GET IT....Poor Mr. Balmer. We will just watch the next version of VISTA gain more ire/distain, and Disrespect that the management deserves. When Gates ran this company the buck stopped at his desk and he was willing to be wrong. Pale imitations of Gates now run things while blame shifting anything that doesn't tell them what they want to hear!
In case you don't get it Mr.Balmer...Insanity is doing the same thing again and again while expecting different results...Enjoy your fantasy world Mr. Balmer and just keep telling yourself...Don't see nothing wrong here, Just keep throwing advertising millions at it instead of fixing/reworking/supporting/enhancing/etc.
Just Can't stand to see great corporations continue to look down their noses at the little people thinking of them as objects to overcome instead of seeing what assets they are, and taking the time to say "Thanks for being loyal when we lost our way, Thanks for helping us do better, Thanks for not taking your business somewhere else while we were lost in our own sense of importance."
Have a nice day Mr. Balmer and for your sake I hope the Microsoft world continues to be understanding but....Don't take it for granted for to long because ultimately you work for us (The consumers and we can be very unforgiving) and there will come a time that we will not want to hear it just one more time again. Don't believe that we don't know about Linux or the times past when windows was the linux of the day but we believed in you and supported you anyway.
I'm a pc and this is the end of my rant
