Office 2007: 70 million not served
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| What percentage of the 70 million copies sold between July 1, 2006, and June
| 30, 2007, were Office 2007? I’d be a good percent of them were, but Microsoft
| won’t comment….
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=723
They lie about Vista, they lie about Office, but it's probably not a crime that
will get any of these crooks into prison.
Microsoft Releases Office 2003 Service Pack 3
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| Microsoft is making the third service pack for Office 2003 available for free
| download Sept. 18, which the company says strengthens the product's defenses
| against malicious software.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2184443,00.asp
In other Words (sic), it's still not secure.
Related:
Uh-Oh, Vista! PC Sales Levels Are Normal
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| "Vista hasn't been a catalyst for PC sales," he said. "Looking at the
| weekly data, there really isn't anything happening with sales that
| has anything to do with Vista."
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/oh_oh_vista_pc_sales_levels_are_normal.html
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| "This is a relic of old-line consumer products companies like Philip
| Morris, or fraudsters like Miniscribe who literally shipped bricks in
| lieu of disk drives to hit sales targets.
|
| [...]
|
| Channel stuffing is the business practice where a company or a sales
| force within a company inflates its sales figures by forcing more
| products through a distribution channel than the channel is capable
| of selling to the world at large.
|
| [...]
|
| We have a game we play around the office here with Microsoft press
| releases. The game is, "Find the words that make the headline true."
| It's not always easy.
|
| [...]
|
| Sony, like Microsoft, announces units shipped, not actually sold.
| This allows both companies to advertise sales numbers based on how
| many units they can force retailers to accept, not on how many units
| customers actually buy; both have considerable market power to push
| excess unsold inventory into the channel."
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http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2007/04/microsoft_phili.html
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