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Microsoft scales back its big employee meeting, just a bit
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| The meeting, traditionally closed to the public and press except on rare
| occasions, gives Microsoft executives a chance to rally the troops. But
| given the company's unprecedented job cuts, the cheerleading stands to be
| more subdued this year, as highlighted in a recent post by the anonymous
| Mini-Microsoft employee blogger.
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| "Folks are going to come into Safeco, grab their box lunch, sit down with
| their co-workers and friends and as they fold their pink paper airplane,
| they are going to remark, 'I can't believe they are spending all this
| money for today. <<Fill name in the blank>> and more could have kept
| their job if they just cancelled this horse and pony show.' "
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http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/09/microsoft_trims_company_meeting.html?ana=from_rss
Wall Street still worrying over netbook impact on Microsoft's Windows 7 sales
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| How much will netbooks dent Microsoftâs Windows sales?
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| Itâs a question that continues to preoccupy many a Wall Street analyst,
| especially as Microsoft marches toward the October 22 launch of Windows 7.
| No matter how many times Microsoft officials claim that they believe the
| company will be able to charge premium prices for Windows 7, even on
| netbooks, Microsoft watchers ask again about just how elastic Windowsâ
| pricing really can be, given that netbooks go for a few hundred dollars.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3877
Related:
Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon
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| Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows
| Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will
| want to use it. So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's
| number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new
| [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel
| it at all. There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no
| remote control."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/acer_slams_vista_home_basic/
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
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| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
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| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
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