____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 28 January 2008 18:36 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
> <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:14:45 -0500
> <6w5kx0vfm91c$.1xx52p6zpst97$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:49:07 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>>> From a reliable source I hear that it's the same old business.
>>> "If you can get hold of this article, it is probably time to dig
>>> it out again and use in the context of the current financial
>>> troubles. Microsoft execs bluff like anything, but basically it
>>> seems much of the Vista sales aren't sales." I've said that for
>>> over a year.
>>
>> More Schestowitz FUD.
>>
>> While I agree with you that MS and IBM and etc are fudging the numbers, I
>> say so as an opinion.
>>
>> You act like it is fact...
>>
>> So where is your proof Roy Schestowitz?
>>
>> "A reliable source" doesn't cut it, although in COLA it probably does,
>> sadly enough.
>>
>> Haven't the minions in COLA had enough of this clown Roy Schestowitz?
>>
>> Why not ask him for proof?
>
> Microsoft is not fudging the numbers. If one wishes to
> accuse Microsoft of fudging the numbers, one has to go
> through the legal process. Sowing rumors won't cut it.
>
> In any event Microsoft presumably realizes revenues
> whenever Vista is installed on a machine; the machine need
> not reach the consumer or actually be sold. Another,
> more troubling scenario is that the unit is sold anyway
> with Vista and *another* license for XP is burned as the
> customer replaces the one with the other. A third license
> may be burned in the future when Vista SP2 comes out.
>
> Microsoft presumably makes a lot of money that way, and the
> customer of course gets what he wants: a working machine.
>
> (That he has to pay three times may not be that much of
> a concern to him. Of course one might as well ask the
> obvious question of why it's not to Microsoft's advantage
> to get it all right the first time, but Microsoft, like
> Linux, is also shooting at a moving target; hardware does
> not stand still. To be sure, many of Vista's problems do
> not appear to be hardware related....)
Windows doesn't make much money. Office does. See:
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01/25/financial-deception-microsoft/
You'll find some more concrete evidence there.
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