What Would You Pay for Vista?
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| But the store had scads of Windows Basic (aka Home Basic) upgrades
| which just weren't moving very fast, even at $59.95.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/what_would_you_pay_for_vista.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/3a2cvz
Luring people in to the unknown...
How about Windows and Office for 3 bucks? People have begun to realise that
Windows is not worth the money that it costs. There are free alternatives
that are far better.
Related:
Microsoft cuts Vista price a bit
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| Sales of Vista are proving a little slower than Microsoft would like.
| One of the reasons might be because of the fairly tough requirements
| that the operating systems DRM has about the number of times you can
| upgrade hardware before the machine thinks it is looking at a new
| operating system.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38478
Ballmer delivers sobering message at Microsoft event
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| Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer tempered the
| expectations of analysts at an event Thursday, telling them
| their predictions for sales of the company's new operating
| system are too high, while those for its operating expenses
| may be too low.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ballmer-delivers-sobering-message-microsoft/story.aspx?guid=%7BCFADFB4D%2D7D86%2D4A0A%2DA233%2D1D18F48F82F7%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/2juebs
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
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