How Microsoft pretends to flog Vista:
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| This isn't much of a mystery. Please allow me a moment to pass along
| what I know.
|
| We had MS reps in about a month ago touting how wonderful Vista is.
| We have about 10k client computers, about 40% Macs mind you. Still
| that leaves us with about 6000 systems that run some flavor of
| Windows. The vast majority of that is Windows XP Pro 32bit w/ SP2. We
| manage all of our Windows clients with Server 2003.
|
| We just rolled out about 500 new IBM/Lenovo business class machines
| for a small project. All of those machines officially come with Vista
| Business.
|
| 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.
|
| We are in K12 education in the NE USA. I would imagine this is
| happening all over the country with business sales. Perhaps globally.
| You would know that better than I given that your HQ is on the big
| island across the pond. :)
|
| 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.
|
| MS is clever and pretty good at marketing even if they make a
| horribly bloated OS.
|
| My .02 and thanks for listening.
|
| JGL
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- 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?
Related (posted recently by Roy):
Microsoft Refuses to Reveal Current Vista Sales
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| Microsoft on Thursday reported a 65 percent jump in third quarter
| profits, buoyed by sales of its latest operating system, Vista.
|
| Exactly how many Microsoft has sold, however, is still a mystery.
|
| [...]
|
| Liddell declined to provide exact numbers on how many units of Vista
| the company had sold.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2122837,00.asp
What are they hiding?
Microsoft: Vista upgrades for everybody!
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| Windows Vista is starting to look like those Persian rug stores
| which are always having a 'closing down' sale.
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http://apcmag.com/5963/microsoft_vista_upgrades_for_everybody
Signs of desperation?
The Great Ubuntu Switch
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| However, it seems peer pressure, as well as a general disgust for
| Windows bugs and latency, has taken its toll, and I've finally made
| the full-blown switch to Linux. I've wiped the Windows partition
| from my hard drive, I've moved on, and I'm not looking back.
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http://storm.presidium.org/?title=171
I was a Windows Vista user for like 2 minutes.. but not anymore
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| Vista got as far as the "Preparing your computer for starting for the
| first time" message and my paranoia became too intense.
|
| I shutoff the machine. Put in the Ubuntu CD and wiped the drive.
| Phew. Its really amazing that when I buy a laptop (desktops not as
| much given I usually build me own) it feels like I don't really
| own it. After Ubuntu was installed however, the laptop is now mine.
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http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2007/04/i-was-windows-vista-user-for-like-2.html
How many more such stories will it take for market analysts to realise
that Microsoft's Vista hype is just smoke and mirrors?
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| 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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