The Death of Windows Vista Extras
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| The bottom line is that the Ultimate Extras team has gone underground.
| Microsoft cannot expect Ultimate users to survive on a preview of Windows
| DreamScene with an outdated Content Pack and two Windows Vista wallpapers.
| For $399, Microsoft has to cough up palpable results.
|
| But so far, all is dead on the Ultimate Extras front. Even the blog went
| quiet after mid March, and I have a feeling that silence from the Ultimate
| Extras team is not what Ultimate users want to "hear."
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Death-of-Windows-Vista-Extras-57300.shtml
Wow. It's looking bad. So many projects are failing.
This image says it all (the real purpose of Vista):
http://a0.vox.com/6a00d4142fb4b9685e00cd9735f9684cd5-pi
Here's a new video from a blogger who loves Vista... not so much at all.
http://www.expotv.com/videos/reviews/7/86/Microsoft-Windows-Vista-Home-Premium-FU/64283
Related:
Nine burning questions about how Vista is really doing
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| Instead, there's so much spin -- from Microsoft, from rivals such
| as Apple Inc., from market analysts pushing research and more research
| -- it would even leave Sasha Cohen dizzy. Here's our attempt to unravel
| this puzzle-shrinkwrapped-in-a-mystery.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9021838
http://tinyurl.com/2u6gzq
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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