____/ chrisv on Wednesday 31 October 2007 13:11 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>I think part of the pain these retailers feel is a result of Microsoft's
>>channel-stuffing (plenty of references posted to COLA, some appended again
>>below), which was only possible due to hype, generated by IDC's 'shill study'
>>on Vista and the ecosystem. A $500,000,000 marketing budget played a role as
>>well (the budget has run out by now, I suspect), so Microsoft was happy to
>>boast 88,000,000 'sales' of Vista. Sadly, all these 'sales' are sitting there
>>doing nothing in the warehouses of large chains, which get nothing but a pain
>>and an overdraft. Those that get sold usually get replaced by XP or Linux
>>anyway.
>
> There was a Dell ad in yesterday's local newspaper, with two machines
> - one laptop, on desktop - and both were being offered with the choice
> of XP or Visduh.
They should have named it Vid-dud.
Windows Dud: for those who don't know better.
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