Vista's failures explained
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| Please stop your whining, it is getting quite annoying. We do realise you
| have an OS called MeII (aka Vista) and it isn't selling. Please accept my
| sympathies but not my dollars, you lost me and all my clients as a customer.
| I am going Linux now wherever possible, and from the sound of things, that is
| in many more places than you find comfortable.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40533
Hey, [H]omer, sue INQ/Charlie for stealing your word. :-)
Related:
Don't wait for Vista SP1, pleads Microsoft
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| "Some customers may be waiting to adopt Windows Vista because they've heard
| rumors about device or application compatibility issues, or because they
| think they should wait for a service pack release," the company said in a
| newsletter.
|
| [...]
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| No wonder the company needs a "fact-rich program" to convince people why they
| should "proceed with confidence" -- its own announcements must have given
| plenty of business IT managers shaky legs.
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http://apcmag.com/6458/dont_wait_for_vista_sp1_pleads_microsoft
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
It's not just Vista that fails to sell well and requires some serious spin
(marketing lies).
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| 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
Is that 1 Million Zunes Shipped or Sold?
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| Stephen Baker, NPD's vice president of industry analysis, says he believes
| that Microsoft could have shipped 1 million Zunes. "They have not sold 1
| million players through nor do I believe they will by the end of June," he
| said. "That number is likely to be around 750,000."
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| Microsoft's modest sales goal--at least compared to more than 100
| million iPods--may or may not be in sight, depending on whether
| that number is shipped or sold.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/games_consumer/is_that_1_million_shipped_or_sold.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Rumor: Is Microsoft cheating their [Xbox 360] sales?
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| All in all, there are some sobering thoughts with very broad implications
| for any company if that were true. That being said, would you buy
| from Microsoft, or any other company for that matter, if they were
| cheating their sales?
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http://xbox360.qj.net/Rumor-Is-Microsoft-cheating-their-sales-/pg/49/aid/89595
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