Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Leopard gets love, Vista gets dissed
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| This compares to 27 percent of PC buyers who got Vista Home Premium on their
>| new PC and a pathetic 15 percent of those who bought PCs with Vista Home
>| Basic pre-installed.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Seemingly contradicting the IDC and Gartner reports released earlier in the
>| week that showed the Mac?s market share slipping a bit from the third quarter
>| to the fourth, the ChangeWave data showed an increase in Mac buyers. Of those
>| who bought a computer in the past 90 days, 17 percent (up from 14 percent)
>| said they bought a Mac laptop and 16 percent (up from 10 percent) said they
>| bought a Mac desktop.
> `----
>
> http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/appleaday/blog/2008/01/leopard_gets_love_vista_gets_d.html
>
> Disclosure: IDC and Gartner have investors from Microsoft. They also have a
> shilling history (examples below).
>
The scale of Microsoft's propaganda machine is amazing. I suspect that
the Oil and Tobacco industries are similarly tooled up, but they've not
lived their lives on the net...
>
> Recent:
>
> Software pirates put sizeable dent in UK economy
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The Business Software Alliance (BSA) claimed today in its annual "Global
>| Software Piracy Study" ? which was carried out by analyst firm IDC ? that a
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>| reduction in counterfeit software by ten per cent over four years could add
>| an extra £4.46bn to Blighty's economy.
> `----
>
> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/01/22/bsa_software_piracy/
>
> Related:
>
> [On Microsoft 'buying' analysts and shills (own admission)]:
>
> http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
>
>
> [Some more at the end of this podcast]:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/07/open_season_seven/
>
>
> Is Linux really losing market share to Windows?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Should we be ready, as Kent Brockman might put it, to "welcome our new
>| Microsoft overlords," or are the IDC Quarterly Server Tracker figures not
>| really reflecting the reality of how servers are used in businesses? I, for
>| one, think that what IDC is measuring and what server operating systems
>| people are really using are two entirely different things.
> `----
>
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8060720094.html
>
>
> Microsoft's Sponsored OOXML Study
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Today, Microsoft made available an IDC study about so-called open desktop
>| file formats. It's yet another Microsoft propaganda effort, as a crucial
>| format standards vote approaches.
> `----
>
> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/microsofts_sponsored_ooxml_study.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
> http://tinyurl.com/2tx9eo
>
>
> Dell Won't Preinstall Ubuntu Linux On Small-Business Computers
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Dell's refusal to sell Ubuntu machines to small businesses makes sense,
>| because those customers typically want PCs that let them get to work right
>| away. "It makes sense because the assumption is they want everything to work
>| right out of the box," Richard Shim, analyst for IDC, said. "With something
>| like Ubuntu, it's going to require some tinkering."
> `----
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200000030
>
> And they ended up with an egg in the face. Dell delivers to SMBs now
>
>
> IDC pronounces Linux unimportant to European economy [in Microsoft-commissioned
> study]
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| A recent IDC white paper on the economic impact of Microsoft's super
>| soaraway new Vista operating system seems to be lacking one crucial
>| ingredient -- other operating systems.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34542
>
>
> NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Part of the problem stems from the reticence of companies such as
>| IDC and Gartner to reveal their clients. That should make everyone
>| nervous, but it doesn't. So called objective technology publications
>| keep publishing material bought by vendors without telling you this.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
>
>
> Has IDC got the wrong number for iPhone?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| IDC has poured cold water on Apple's iPhone just days after a previous survey
>| led M:Metrics to talk up the new entry to the cellphone stakes. But are the
>| new numbers sound?
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| The most obvious difference is in the sample size. M:Metrics had
>| 11,060 respondents, IDC just 456. The sample space was also different,
>| with M:Metrics apparently sampling from mobile phone subscribers, while
>| IDC looked at online mobile phone shoppers.
> `----
>
> http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13036&Itemid=1054
>
>
> IDC Study:
>
> ,----[ Quotes with annotation ]
>| "(Microsoft manager:) I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
>| on TCO on webservers. I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
>| on availability (windows was down more than linux). And I don't like the
>| fact that the reports says nothing new is coming with windows .net server."
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| "I don't like it to be public on the doc that we sponsored it because I
>| don't think the outcome is as favorable as we had hoped. I just don't like
>| competitors using it as ammo against us. It is easier if it doesn't mention
>| that we sponsored it."
> `----
>
> http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/9000/PX09695.pdf
>
>
> Vista filip for US states, claims IDC
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| While reviewers debate the merits of Windows Vista and analysts puzzle the
>| over the pace of adoption, IDC and Microsoft are in little doubt over its
>| impact for the economies of America's 50 states.
>|
>| To date, IDC has estimated Windows Vista will create 37,000 new jobs and
>| generate $15.5bn in related products and services across just four US
>| states.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/24/microsoft_windows_vista_idc/
>
>
> IDC report on Open Document Standards
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| This study is a fact-based analysis of the emerging open document
>| standards, Open XML and ODF.
> `----
>
> http://openxmldeveloper.org/archive/2006/11/27/IDC_Open_Document_Standards.aspx
>
>
> Vista launch to add 100,000 Europe IT jobs: study
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The study, conducted by research firm IDC and commissioned by Microsoft,
>| said Windows Vista will be installed on over 30 million personal computers
>| in Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Spain and United Kingdom within the
>| first year of shipment.
> `----
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060914/tc_nm/microsoft_study_dc
>
>
> Shill season
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| It's often difficult to figure out the motivation behind a particular
>| study - until one finds out who has commissioned and paid for it.
>| The so-called tech consulting companies would love it if the consumer
>| believes that they have conducted an "independent" study. The worrying
>| thing is that not many people blow their cover.
> `----
>
> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8109/1090/
>
>
> Microsoft Press Releases: Read Between the Lines
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| We have a game we play around the office here with Microsoft press
>| releases. The game is called Find the words that make the headline
>| true. It's not always easy.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Our point: Microsoft has a long history of using press releases top
>| romote their product momentum in shall we say interesting ways,
>| using words like "fastest growing" (meaning, the number we started
>| with was really really small) to redefining words such as "sold."
>| It's not good marketing practice. Why? Because once consumers and
>| press people figure out you are playing lawyer, they stop believing
>| you and your brand. And that's more likely to do you harm than good.
> `----
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061211/22190_id.html?.v=1
>
>
> NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Just days after banning Enderle from discussing Microsoft because
>| he has Microsoft as a client, the Times quoted Gartner analyst
>| Michael Silver and AMR Research analyst Jim Murphy in a story
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>| about Microsoft's Windows and Office software.
>|
>| If the paper would prefer not to quote an analyst who has
>| experience with a client, it did a poor job. Silver is Gartner's
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>| vice president in charge of client computing. Microsoft happens to
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>| do lots of business with Gartner and also happens to have a
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>| client-software monopoly. We're guessing that Silver knows
>| Microsoft's products well and has direct involvement with the
>| company.
>|
>| And, sure enough, he appears a number of times on Microsoft's
>| own site and thousands of times in stories about Microsoft.
>|
>| Jim Murphy - wait for it - covers Microsoft too and is even more
>| prolific than Silver.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Part of the problem stems from the reticence of companies such as
>| IDC and Gartner to reveal their clients. That should make everyone
>| nervous, but it doesn't. So called objective technology publications
>| keep publishing material bought by vendors without telling you this.
>| They're also too lazy or scared to ignore the likes of Gartner and
>| IDC until the firms change their disclosure rules.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
>
>
> Buy Vista or die
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Gartner research vice president Michael Silver said that outfits have delayed
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>| their Vista migrations to the point of stupidity and now some are considering
>| late 2008 or even 2009, while others mull skipping the OS completely.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/07/vista-die
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