Genuine Windows Vista sold only 244 copies in the whole of China
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| We have gathered these pictures for you, showing various versions of
| illegal copies; some also come with Office, Linux, MacOS and
| ^^^^^
| Windows 98/Me/2000/XP on the same disc.
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http://www.gearfuse.com/genuine-windows-vista-sold-only-244-copies-in-whole-of-china/
Related and recent:
Uh-Oh, Vista! PC Sales Levels Are Normal
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| "Vista hasn't been a catalyst for PC sales," he said. "Looking at the
| weekly data, there really isn't anything happening with sales that
| has anything to do with Vista."
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/oh_oh_vista_pc_sales_levels_are_normal.html
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| "This is a relic of old-line consumer products companies like Philip
| Morris, or fraudsters like Miniscribe who literally shipped bricks in
| lieu of disk drives to hit sales targets.
|
| [...]
|
| Channel stuffing is the business practice where a company or a sales
| force within a company inflates its sales figures by forcing more
| products through a distribution channel than the channel is capable
| of selling to the world at large.
|
| [...]
|
| We have a game we play around the office here with Microsoft press
| releases. The game is, "Find the words that make the headline true."
| It's not always easy.
|
| [...]
|
| Sony, like Microsoft, announces units shipped, not actually sold.
| This allows both companies to advertise sales numbers based on how
| many units they can force retailers to accept, not on how many units
| customers actually buy; both have considerable market power to push
| excess unsold inventory into the channel."
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http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2007/04/microsoft_phili.html
Linux grabs 30% of China's fast-growing smartphone market
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| China consumed 15 million smartphones in 2006, up from 10 million
| units in 2005, resulting in more than doubling of smartphone
| revenues, according to Chinese market research firm CCID Consulting
| Company. Symbian controlled 63.2 percent of the market, followed by
| Linux (30.3 percent) and Windows Mobile (5.4 percent).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9419753617.html
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| In terms of shipment volume, Microsoft also accounted for the
| largest proportion with a 65.26% share for its Windows operating
| system, followed by Linux-based Red Flag Software at 12.59% and
| China Standard Software (CS2C) at 6.64%, Analysys indicated.
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http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20070312PR205.html
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