Comment Broken Window Fallacy (Score 1) 610
Weird, a pun that actually is appropriate?
What the parent is partially suggesting is that Microsoft intentionally sabotages their own product to boost future profit which seems to me a bit like "Broken Window Fallacy" in economics. If you are in the business of building and installing windows, wouldn't be a good idea to sneak around and break people's windows? It turns out that this is a bad idea because people end up spending their budgets more on Windows and less on other items. With that in mind, suggesting Microsoft purposely released a borked Windows 8 to improve sales for Windows 9 is crazy due to the amount of money they would have to knowingly flush. And just like the window company, there is a big risk where if they are caught they are DOOMED because customers will flee to competitors and alternatives.
Sales where big on Win95, XP and Win7. Was that because of the stuff between? Partially but for a reason not mentioned: time. If people hear how clunky and broken Windows ME was they sit on their Win95 machine until XP came out. By the time that happened hardware had nearly turned over to completely different class so buying an entirely new machine made a lot of sense. Sure WinME sucked but it was more the case that many had to buy new hardware by the time XP released. Do we have a window when Win9 will come? If the pace of hardware dev from AMD and Intel keeps moving on track then people will feel they need to buy a new machine regardless of how much they love or hate Win8 or how much they love or hate Win9.