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Re: More evidence that Vista "sales" are fake

  • Subject: Re: More evidence that Vista "sales" are fake
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:48:27 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <pan.2007.04.30.04.09.33.891486@zianet.com>
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Verily I say unto thee, that ray spake thusly:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:11:39 +0100, [H]omer wrote:

>> How Microsoft pretends to flog Vista:
>>
>> .----
[...]
>> | However since we have no plans to roll out Vista on the desktop
>> | anytime soon since it is "cludgeware," we are allowed to "downgrade"
>> | our license to XP and still be in MS compliance.
[...]
>> | Officially the computer goes out the door with Vista, it arrives on
>> | site, Vista gets blown away and our image of XP Pro is put on. MS
>> | still counts the box as a Vista sale however.
[...]
>>  - http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39258

>> How many supposed sales of this "horribly bloated" "cludgeware" results
>> in it being replaced with XP or Linux? Are Microsoft adjusting their
>> "sales" figures accordingly?

> Why the hell should they? If it is sold, it is sold. MS got their money,
> why should they give a damn.

Did you read the article?

This school's Educational License permits them to use XP *instead* of
Vista. They never use any Vista licenses, but they still count as Vista
sales, when in fact they're *XP* sales.

It's sneaky manoeuvring like this which enables MS to claim better sales
figures for Vista, than is actually reflected in real terms.

IOW they're lying.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

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