Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Nine burning questions about how Vista is really doing
Pretty much confirms what we already knew, channel stuffing and largely
unredeemed upgrade coupons.
I find it interesting that Microsoft continues to be so secretive about
the specific numbers, e.g. direct sales figures, probably because they
know it paints a bleak picture, or as Lai puts it "adoption of Vista
appears to be slow among enterprises and governments."
It's the things that Microsoft *won't* talk about that is most revealing
about their strategy. Hide the truth, spin the bad news, pay supposedly
impartial third-party analysts to invent statistics, do whatever it
takes to give the impression that a particular product is succeeding.
Doubtlessly Microsoft call this marketing ... I call it lying.
It's also interesting to note, that despite admitting that formulating
meaningful statistics about Vista sales is hindered by Microsoft's veil
of secrecy, Lai is quite happy to swallow the IDC's magical "2%" figure
for Linux deployment. Like the IDC, he appears oblivious to the fact
that aggregating metrics about something that is Free is virtually
impossible; and the IDC, and all those who naively believe them, are
just wildly guessing. The general consensus of information on the
Internet does not even remotely tally with this fictitious 2% figure.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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