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Re: [News] Chips Sales Confirm That Vista Means Nothing (Figures Been Made Up/'Massaged')

  • Subject: Re: [News] Chips Sales Confirm That Vista Means Nothing (Figures Been Made Up/'Massaged')
  • From: "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:50:45 -0500
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: BellSouth Internet Group
  • References: <9911524.aoYlxvcQHp@schestowitz.com> <7YadnY4xN6jKS6jbnZ2dnUVZ_vbinZ2d@comcast.com>
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:518977
Linonut wrote:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
> wisdom:
>
>> Chip sales confirm no Microsoft Vista boom
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> See How Microsoft pretends to flog Vista and Mystery of Microsoft
>>> Vista sales stays unanswered.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39274
>
>   http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39237
>
>   What is clear is that Microsoft has no problems raising prices and
>   has a captive OEM audience

That's not clear at all.  There's no proof anywhere 99.9% of OEMs are 
obligated to continue selling Windows year after year.


>   somewhat incapable of saying boo to a
>   goose which doesn't always lay a golden egg, like the fabled Windows
>   95.
>
>   A lot of the 65 per cent rise in Microsoft's Q3 revenues was brought
>   forward from the previous quarter and is related to a coupon scheme
>   it funded.
>
>   The firm also changed its accounting method so that every time it
>   ships a Vista licence, the revenue accrues in that quarter rather
>   than over a period of time as it did with Windows XP.
>
> Innovation, Microsoft style.  Didja get /your/ Microsoft coupons?


This is the new cola idiot whine: MS didn't really sell that much of X - 
it's just accounting tricks.

You guys are really, really pathetic sometimes.




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