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____/ Homer on Sunday 04 January 2009 21:16 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> At least in some sites... that /DON'T/ sell their data to all sorts of
>> Fisher Price 'Web surveys'...
>>
>> From the past 3 days:
>>
>> Browsers (Top 10)
>> Browsers Grabber Hits Percent
>> Firefox No 519212 78.3 %
>> MS Internet Explorer No 57479 8.6 %
>> Mozilla No 28859 4.3 %
>> Safari No 13961 2.1 %
>>
>> Microsoft IE: going nowhere fast.
>
> My annual totals for 2008 put IE in third place, at just 4.9% (including
> the redirect), followed by Safari at 5.6%, and Firefox at 76.3%.
>
> The OS stats put the Mac at 10.7%, Linux at 24.1% and Windows at 60.6%,
> of which XP accounts for 43.5% and Vista a mere 15.1%. The most popular
> GNU/Linux distro is "Unknown or unspecified distribution" at 10.7%,
> followed by Ubuntu at 8.1%, Fedora at 2.1%, then the also-rans.
>
> D'ya think [P]artner/IDC would be interested?
What'$ the bu$ine$$ (or biZniZ) potential of the$e $tat$?
Remember: no income, no study.
Posted yesterday:
IDC and Microsoft Negotiate the Results of Studies
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FOR reasons that we mentioned in the past, the Gartner Group utterly lacks
credibility. It negotiates its output with companies that are also its
clients. IDC is very much the same, as we pointed out before. Sadly, IDC is
not just an analyst firm as it also owns lots and lots of media outlets, which
are of course biased (they rely on funding, e.g. through advertising or
contracts) and it sometimes goes as far as historical revisionism.
Here is an another antitrust exhibit which shows an IDC report being mailed to
Microsoft for review before being published [PDF]. The mail says: “I hate to
put it like this, but at this point, IDC is done negotiating with us. We have
moved them quite a bit already, but they are now holding the line, saying that
if we want the names of their ‘big’ analysts on the report this is it.”
Why is there wiggling room anyway?
This may be less of a ’smoking gun’ than this one [PDF], where Microsoft is
removing the sponsorship from an IDC study. We wrote about it over a year ago.
Responsible for that FUD was also Peter Galli, a former reporter who now
reports directly to Microsoft. █
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Weeks ago:
Gartner and Microsoft Negotiate Not Bashing Vista
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WE last summarised the mischiefs of Waggener Edstrom (Microsoft marketing
front) in this post and we also explained why the Gartner Group is a fraud
(not in the literal sense). One of our readers has unearthed the following
E-mail which shows Microsoft, Gartner and Waggener Edstrom coordinating and
managing the perceptions and publications that come out of Gartner.
- From page 34 of this set of evidence [PDF] (which comes from the Vista
collusion trial [1, 2, 3]), here is an E-mail that Jamin Spilzer, Group
Manager at Microsoft, sent to Brad Goldberg, a General Manager [DOC] at
Microsoft. Waggener Edstrom was sent a copy.
From: Jamin Spilzer
sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 9:30 PM
to: Brad Goldberg
CC: Martha Sherman; Lisa Worthington; Laura Dodd (Waggener Edstrom)
Subject: Steveb recap Draft
[…]
David Smith commented that Gartner will not bash MS if MS chooses to slip
Vista. Steve gave the analysts an explanation of how MS will Measure Vista
success. First is market measures such as absolute units (should be bigger),
percentage of Install base (small percentage, regardless of ’success’). Second
Steve keyed three audiences he wasts to see adopt Vista: developers,
enterprises and consumer word of mouth (a “je ne sais qua”) that reaffirms
Windows at the center of computing….
David Smith is one of the participants from Gartner. He is just one among four.
They personally met Jamin Spilzer, Brad Goldberg, and Steve Ballmer (all from
Microsoft). They agreed not to criticise Windows Vista under the condition
named above. Also in attendance was Neil MacDonald (of Gartner), who you can
see ‘flirting’ with Steve Ballmer in this recent video. █
“Working behind the scenes to orchestrate “independent” praise of our
technology, and damnation of the enemy’s, is a key evangelism function during
the Slog. “Independent” analyst’s report should be issued, praising your
technology and damning the competitors (or ignoring them). “Independent”
consultants should write columns and articles, give conference presentations
and moderate stacked panels, all on our behalf (and setting them up as experts
in the new technology, available for just $200/hour). “Independent” academic
sources should be cultivated and quoted (and research money
granted). “Independent” courseware providers should start profiting from their
early involvement in our technology. Every possible source of leverage should
be sought and turned to our advantage.”
–Microsoft, internal document [PDF]
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~~ Best of wishes
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