"Sinister Midget" <phydeaux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 2006-07-15, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted
> something concerning:
>> The Microsoft Invincibility Myth
>>
>> ,----[ Small fragment ]
>>| The leaves Microsoft with an increasingly unattractive market; the
>>| majority of desktop PCs are competing fiercely to deliver low
>>prices. As
>>| PC prices drop below $500, it becomes increasingly difficult to hide
>>a
>>| substantial Windows license fee in the mix. That means Microsoft
>>will havet
>>| o lower their prices or face the threat of losing those low end
>>desktops
>>| to Linux.
>> `----
>
> Losing _THEIR_ low end desktops? I didn't know they sold any. Low end
> software? Yes. Low class products? Yes. Desktops? Not that I recall
> hearing about.
>
Silly. The idiot was talking about losing THOSE low end desktops. And
the operative word is "or". Don't you think that MS has some marketing
programs in effect to help the OEMs out in the bottom tier? MS already
shoulders some of the load with the cheapos and helps the OEM gain some
price realization with the Media Center kind of upsell. Technology is a
back seat to mass marketing here, midget. Price realization is a big
concern on everyone's part.
Do you think that leather seats cost the auto maker so much more as
reflected in the price? Get a clue.
>
> Once the low end machines go, the higher ones can't be too far ahead
> (not behind - the higher end ones should be leading the parade in
> fairly short order).
>
Takes some promotion money to shape consumer opinions, midget. Linux
has an empty wallet. With linux being featured on the low end junk at
WalMart, it is painted as the loser's OS.
> --
> Microsoft's relationship to its users is that of the blue whale to
> krill. Our only purpose is to breed, feed and get squeezed against its
> giant tongue until every last drop of money is released.
> -- Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet(UK)
"Rupert"!!! Says it all.
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