Microsoft, Listen to the People
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| How much should Microsoft listen to its shareholders? After all, they own the
| company.
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| got to asking that question, after listening to last week's annual
| shareholders meeting. I hadn't listened to a meeting for a couple years and
| expected to hear the usual complaints about share price. But there were
| surprising calls for Microsoft to be more morally responsible and to take
| ethical leadership.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/microsoft_listen_to_the_people.html
Microsoft's customers are OEMs, not users. Users MUST receive Windows Vista
with every PC. That's the 'law'.
Windows vista a failure - Has Microsoft acknowledged that?
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| Microsoft had launched Windows Vista with big hopes of switching most of the
| Windows OS users to Windows Vista very soon. However, going by the reports it
| seems vista has been a failure and now Microsoft has some lawsuits to Windows
| Vista contend with. Though Microsoft has not been acknowledging lesser sales
| however there have been indications like Steve “Sounds of Silence” Ballmer
| blaming software pirates for Vista’s poor sales...
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http://afterthe.net/journal/os/windows-vista-failure/
Related:
Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
|
| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125
Vista sales slow despite record MS profit
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| The sales rate of Microsoft's Windows Vista is gradually slowing down as the
| operating system reaches the one-year anniversary of its release to
| businesses, according to the company's latest financial results.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/10/26/vista.sales.rate.slowing/
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
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
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| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
|
| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
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