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[News] [Rival] Microsoft's Forced Upgrades Trap Ineffective

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft's Forced Upgrades Trap Ineffective
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:09:26 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Force, not value, to drive upgrades - the new Microsoft way (?)

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| Hurray for Microsoft! In an attempt to boost revenues and smooth them out 
| (i.e., ongoing annuities instead of purchases clumped around product 
| releases), Microsoft has shown a callous disregard for the customer as it 
| seeks out its own benefit.   
| 
| This despite Forrester showing that only 11% of Software Assurance customers 
|                                          ^^ [see below]
| plan to renew it. Why? Well, because Microsoft's Software Assurance tends to 
| drive up prices. What's not to love?   
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9774969-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad


Related:

Businesses having second thoughts about Vista

,----[ Quote ]
| Fewer businesses are now planning to move to Windows Vista than seven months 
| ago, according to a survey by patch management vendor PatchLink Corp., while 
| more said they will either stick with the Windows they have, or turn to Linux 
| or Mac OS X.   
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028478


Software Assurance Storm Warning

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| In a report to be published today, Forrester Research sees a series of 
| customer hurricanes coming Microsoft's way. If they strike, they could wash 
| away many Software Assurance contracts. Software Assurance is the discounted 
| upgrade option available with Open, Open Value and Select volume licensing 
| contracts.    
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/software_assurance_storm_warning.html

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