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Re: [News] Microosft Uses Generic Figures to Create Vista Hype, But Refuses to Give Vista Sales Figures

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microosft Uses Generic Figures to Create Vista Hype, But Refuses to Give Vista Sales Figures
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:04:40 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <1399654.EuhUrA3oO3@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Slated.org
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Microsoft Refuses to Reveal Current Vista Sales
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | 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.
> `----
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2122837,00.asp
> 
> When people said that only 244 copies of Vista were sold in China, Microsoft
> denied it, but /AGAIN/ refused to give the real figures. They are still
> channel stuffing! Nobody is buying the stuff, but they try to change that
> using 'sheep effect' (make people think that everybody else is buying it).

See, I don't understand that kind of mentality. Because *you* go out and
but a new TV, that's going to make *me* do the same?

Sheep indeed.

-- 
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>
`----

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
 09:00:07 up 11 days,  6:32,  4 users,  load average: 0.42, 0.25, 0.20

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