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The PCWorld.co.uk site has an entire vista styles and orientated design, and For a Tuesday morning store celebration, flagship PC World store in central London hired costumed characters, including Sherlock Holmes to signify security and a movie star to emphasize multimedia.
I actually emailed the PC World DSG Group PR and got this response...
Hamish Thompson at PC world said...
Quote:
Said some retailers are banking on Vista to push customers toward the higher-end machines needed to run Vista -- which imposes such hardware requirements as 1 gigabyte of system memory, or RAM. Consumers will also need to upgrade older software and devices to work with Vista.
Can we find any other sites going Vista Crazy?
And the question is, will PEOPLE be vista crazy? BusinessWeek reports...
No huge crowds for midnight Vista launch...
Quote:
"When I look at Windows Vista, I see a technology that is interesting, that is relevant, but to some extent is evolutionary," said Al Gillen, an analyst at the technology research group IDC. "I do not believe it will create a lot of motivation for people to rush out and get a new operating system."
A CompUSA store on the US saw only a dozen people, and only about 80 at the PC world store, london, not like a PS3 launch!
EDIT: Look at this PC World - Vista Flash Ad!! Vista World!
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/6591/vistaif2.swf
Its all retailers banking on Vista to push customers toward the higher-end machines needed to run Vista
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Retailers across the country stayed open through the wee hours of Tuesday morning to sell the long-awaited Windows Vista operating system, even though most knew customers wouldn't be lining up out the door for the midnight launch of Microsoft Corp.'s latest product.
im not sad to see it go in all honeslty. Ive probably used like 5 floppies in my life and after im done with them i through them round the room like a frisbee.
memory sticks FTW. Who needs 1.44mb when u can fit a gig into a device a quarter its size.