Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 05 June 2007 20:23 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Zune will not be launched in Europe in the autumn
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Wirtschaftswoche the head of Microsoft Steve Ballmer said: "So far we
>>>| are losing money in this business, because we have to invest. Therefore
>>>| we have decided not to enter new markets yet." He said he was not able
>>>| to say when that step would be taken.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/90590/from/rss09
>>>
>>
>> Why would anyone here want one? Microsoft are not very popular here at
>> all, anyway, so I can't really see them selling anything much in
>> numbers. People are very fickle, and Microsoft are just not cool any
>> more. The Xbox gets around it to a point by pretending not to be
>> Microsoft, but I think enough people have realised what it is now that
>> this will no longer be a defence.
>
> There are some more products which lose a lot of money (Windows Mobile
> included, IIRC) and naming alternations that are intended to escape bad
> image. It's like a criminal that uses name changes in order to repeat
> crimes. How many times has Microsoft's search been renamed?
>
Seascale, Windscale, Sellafield...
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