Vista promotions to cut Microsoft revenue
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| UBS AG's Heather Bellini, Institutional Investor
| magazine's top-ranked software analyst, reduced her
| estimate for sales to $12.6 billion from $13.4 billion
| and sliced her profit estimate to 32 cents a share from
| 38 cents. Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s Rick Sherlund also cut
| his estimates for the fiscal second quarter ending in
| December.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/289202_msftforecast19.html
Another $900 million will be spent on Vista advertising (the
sheep & brainwash approach---see below). The increase in R&D
spendings (additional $1.3 billion), by the way, was argued
to be bad news and a sign of weakness. The analysis I read
this morning aligned with mine.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fj3FOHc-fgA
Also see:
Apple's share of U.S. PC market jumps to 6.1 percent
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| Sales of Apple's Macintosh computers over the past twelve
| month's have grown faster than any other major PC
| manufacturer, boosting the company's share of the
| U.S. PC market to 6.1 percent, according to data
| released by Gartner on Wednesday.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2158
Linux is argued to have greater and wider deployment than
Macs, even on the desktop alone.
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