Microsoft's Sponsored OOXML Study
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| Today, Microsoft made available an IDC study about so-called open desktop
| file formats. It's yet another Microsoft propaganda effort, as a crucial
| format standards vote approaches.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/microsofts_sponsored_ooxml_study.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/2tx9eo
Related:
IDC spreads FUD:
Dell Won't Preinstall Ubuntu Linux On Small-Business Computers
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| Dell's refusal to sell Ubuntu machines to small businesses makes sense,
| because those customers typically want PCs that let them get to work right
| away. "It makes sense because the assumption is they want everything to work
| right out of the box," Richard Shim, analyst for IDC, said. "With something
| like Ubuntu, it's going to require some tinkering."
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200000030
And they ended up with an egg in the face. Dell delivers to SMBs now
IDC pronounces Linux unimportant to European economy [in Microsoft-commissioned
study]
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| A recent IDC white paper on the economic impact of Microsoft's super
| soaraway new Vista operating system seems to be lacking one crucial
| ingredient -- other operating systems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34542
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
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| Part of the problem stems from the reticence of companies such as
| IDC and Gartner to reveal their clients. That should make everyone
| nervous, but it doesn't. So called objective technology publications
| keep publishing material bought by vendors without telling you this.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
Has IDC got the wrong number for iPhone?
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| IDC has poured cold water on Apple's iPhone just days after a previous survey
| led M:Metrics to talk up the new entry to the cellphone stakes. But are the
| new numbers sound?
|
| [...]
|
| The most obvious difference is in the sample size. M:Metrics had
| 11,060 respondents, IDC just 456. The sample space was also different,
| with M:Metrics apparently sampling from mobile phone subscribers, while
| IDC looked at online mobile phone shoppers.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13036&Itemid=1054
IDC Study:
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| "(Microsoft manager:) I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
| on TCO on webservers. I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
| on availability (windows was down more than linux). And I don't like the
| fact that the reports says nothing new is coming with windows .net server."
|
| [...]
|
| "I don't like it to be public on the doc that we sponsored it because I
| don't think the outcome is as favorable as we had hoped. I just don't like
| competitors using it as ammo against us. It is easier if it doesn't mention
| that we sponsored it."
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http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/9000/PX09695.pdf
Vista filip for US states, claims IDC
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| While reviewers debate the merits of Windows Vista and analysts puzzle the
| over the pace of adoption, IDC and Microsoft are in little doubt over its
| impact for the economies of America's 50 states.
|
| To date, IDC has estimated Windows Vista will create 37,000 new jobs and
| generate $15.5bn in related products and services across just four US
| states.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/24/microsoft_windows_vista_idc/
IDC report on Open Document Standards
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| This study is a fact-based analysis of the emerging open document
| standards, Open XML and ODF.
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http://openxmldeveloper.org/archive/2006/11/27/IDC_Open_Document_Standards.aspx
Vista launch to add 100,000 Europe IT jobs: study
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| The study, conducted by research firm IDC and commissioned by Microsoft,
| said Windows Vista will be installed on over 30 million personal computers
| in Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Spain and United Kingdom within the
| first year of shipment.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060914/tc_nm/microsoft_study_dc
Shill season
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| It's often difficult to figure out the motivation behind a particular
| study - until one finds out who has commissioned and paid for it.
| The so-called tech consulting companies would love it if the consumer
| believes that they have conducted an "independent" study. The worrying
| thing is that not many people blow their cover.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8109/1090/
Microsoft Press Releases: Read Between the Lines
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| We have a game we play around the office here with Microsoft press
| releases. The game is called Find the words that make the headline
| true. It's not always easy.
|
| [...]
|
| Our point: Microsoft has a long history of using press releases top
| romote their product momentum in shall we say interesting ways,
| using words like "fastest growing" (meaning, the number we started
| with was really really small) to redefining words such as "sold."
| It's not good marketing practice. Why? Because once consumers and
| press people figure out you are playing lawyer, they stop believing
| you and your brand. And that's more likely to do you harm than good.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061211/22190_id.html?.v=1
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