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.
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