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Re: How Operating Systems are Marketted

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Some operating system sell themselves while others...
> 
> ,----[ Snippet ]
> | Block noted that there is a team at the company's Redmond, Wash.,
> | headquarters focused entirely on generating buzz for the OS, planning
> | such things as having a Vista PC make Oprah Winfrey's influential
> | "favorite things" list.
> | 
> | "Can we get a cool new PC in front of Oprah?" Block asked. "Can we
> | do stuff like that? I think we can."
> `----
> 
Good luck to Microsoft, but would she buy into this?  Unfortunately, yes, if
the deal is arranged by her helpers and the topic is off her personal radar
screen (and I do not for one moment imply any criticism of her - especially
with the way she stood up against those Texan ranchers in that Armadillo
courthouse several years ago).

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