In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
<mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:00:00 +0100
<g5e3v4-g3o.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, OK
>><otto@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:37:02 +0200
>><oljrh3piqgbgto28ctbe9s8ik3u74cpon8@xxxxxxx>:
>>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:18:07 +0100, "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.showusyourwow.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> "Directory Listing Denied This Virtual Directory does not allow
>>>>> contents to be listed."
>>>>>
>>>>> Site broken. Wow!
>>>>
>>>>The official explanation from Microsoft is that the Wows they expected
>>>>actually manifested as deathly silence, as people began to realise how
>>>>unbelievably crap Vista is:
>>>>
>>>>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=851
>>>>
>>>>In reality, the "Wow" turned out to be a "W... W... What the F...???"
>>>
>>> Absolutely. All 73 millions of them:
>>>
>>> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5&qpcustom=Windows+Vista
>>>
>>
>> So why is the rampup 4.6 years or so instead of 3?
>>
>
> Well, it's channel stuffing, not real sales. Just look at DSG in the
> UK, they're stuck with warehouses full of inventory nobody wants.
>
I thought OK's link was based on website hits...?
Machines sitting in a warehouse wouldn't generate such. :-)
Of course I'm still wondering about the "Wow"; my idea
is more along the lines of Roy's..."What the F*** were
they thinking?" But it's enough to make one say "Wow,
I could have had a Linux distro!" (With apologies to CSC
Brands, the maker of V8 100% vegetable juice.)
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