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(OT) "Vista sales outpace Windows XP launch."
According to MS, I guess.
'Lessee, if expected annual PC sales are nearly double from the time period when Win XP launched, and we include the upgrade coupons and we include......' Spin, boys, spin.... *snicker* http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-...ncl=1114797658 Drill down any of the articles and you begin to see through the PR..... Stew |
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(OT) "Vista sales outpace Windows XP launch."
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:50:27 -0500, "S.Lewis"
wrote: According to MS, I guess. 'Lessee, if expected annual PC sales are nearly double from the time period when Win XP launched, and we include the upgrade coupons and we include......' Spin, boys, spin.... *snicker* http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-...ncl=1114797658 Drill down any of the articles and you begin to see through the PR..... Stew Yeah I saw at least one article about the same but didn't bother to read it because it was easy to surmise why. Thanks. |
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(OT) "Vista sales outpace Windows XP launch."
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:50:27 -0500, "S.Lewis"
wrote: According to MS, I guess. 'Lessee, if expected annual PC sales are nearly double from the time period when Win XP launched, and we include the upgrade coupons and we include......' Spin, boys, spin.... *snicker* http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-...ncl=1114797658 Drill down any of the articles and you begin to see through the PR..... Stew MICROSOFT IS AN EVIL MONOPOLY just kidding (kind of lol) |
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(OT) "Vista sales outpace Windows XP launch."
"S.Lewis" wrote in message ... According to MS, I guess. 'Lessee, if expected annual PC sales are nearly double from the time period when Win XP launched, and we include the upgrade coupons and we include......' Spin, boys, spin.... *snicker* http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-...ncl=1114797658 Drill down any of the articles and you begin to see through the PR..... Stew People have a tendency to jump on something new. Remember, there's a fool born every 60 seconds. |
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(OT) "Vista sales outpace Windows XP launch."
fox news, ugh. they also say we are 'winning' the war in iraq.
"S.Lewis" wrote in message ... According to MS, I guess. 'Lessee, if expected annual PC sales are nearly double from the time period when Win XP launched, and we include the upgrade coupons and we include......' Spin, boys, spin.... *snicker* http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-...ncl=1114797658 Drill down any of the articles and you begin to see through the PR..... Stew |
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(OT) "Vista sales outpace Windows XP launch."
"Christopher Muto" wrote in message ink.net... fox news, ugh. they also say we are 'winning' the war in iraq. ^^^ That's an official "thread hijack" foul.^^^^^ heh |
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(OT) "Vista sales outpace Windows XP launch."
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:00:20 GMT, "Christopher Muto"
wrote: fox news, ugh. they also say we are 'winning' the war in iraq. I wonder what they see that I don't but I guess I'll just have to watch them to find out (ugh). |
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(OT) "Vista sales outpace Windows XP launch."
"S.Lewis" wrote in message
... "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ink.net... fox news, ugh. they also say we are 'winning' the war in iraq. ^^^ That's an official "thread hijack" foul.^^^^^ heh lol. and i thought the thread was a troll created by the microsoft marketing department who used your good name. but seriously, the articles all headline with a suggestion that sales of vista are strong when in fact they are poor. they are not technically wrong, but the headlines do appear to be misleading. why is this happening to so much of our news these days. do people prefer distortion to clear and straightforward facts? or do advertisers really carry so much weight that they call the shots? even the weather reports no longer say 'partly cloudy' but instead say 'partly sunny'. i don't believe it is pessimistic to say partly cloudy, i believe it is being precise. microsoft seems to think that its own forcast is partly sunny and i say it is partly cloudy. |
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(OT) "Vista sales outpace Windows XP launch."
"Christopher Muto" wrote in message hlink.net... "S.Lewis" wrote in message ... "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ink.net... fox news, ugh. they also say we are 'winning' the war in iraq. ^^^ That's an official "thread hijack" foul.^^^^^ heh lol. and i thought the thread was a troll created by the microsoft marketing department who used your good name. but seriously, the articles all headline with a suggestion that sales of vista are strong when in fact they are poor. they are not technically wrong, but the headlines do appear to be misleading. why is this happening to so much of our news these days. do people prefer distortion to clear and straightforward facts? or do advertisers really carry so much weight that they call the shots? even the weather reports no longer say 'partly cloudy' but instead say 'partly sunny'. i don't believe it is pessimistic to say partly cloudy, i believe it is being precise. microsoft seems to think that its own forcast is partly sunny and i say it is partly cloudy. Chris - It is happening, my friend, because journalism died many years ago. There is no longer any dividing line between news/opinion and entertainment. Agendas and spin, we all have to weigh the source(s) and usually multiple sources if the subject is important enough to us if we want to come to some reasonable conclusion nearing the truth. My dad retired from newspapering after some 40+ years in the newsroom; I stuck around only for about 11 or 12 years in the revenue departments myself before deciding it was a dying industry. Microsoft is simply pencil-whipping numbers or at least is attempting to fluff Vista numbers against XP numbers that should by all means be smaller due to the market saturation at that time. They're hoping no one will notice. They'ze idjits. -Stew |
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(OT) "Vista sales outpace Windows XP launch."
I did a stint of freelance writing for the computer trade rags for a number of
years. I saw the beginnings of the disintegration of the supposed Chinese wall between ads and editorial. Along with it came vendors throwing free hardware and software at everyone in editorial. (I was even offered stock in one of the companies whose products had gotten my favorable review. After the article appeared, at least.) Right there first was Microsoft handing out Windows, Office, C development environments, you name it. They went one better than Apple, which did and continues to do a lot of grassroots selling to primary and secondary schools. Hey, if the writers and editors are all using Office, that's wonderful propaganda. Is it any wonder that almost any article about Microsoft could have easily been written by Microsoft's PR flaks? Needless to say, I got out, and became a small VAR, very modest compared to being in the print media. Infoworld will no longer publish its hard copy weekly, going completely on-line. Not enough ads. Same as newspapers, which are getting skinnier and skinnier. .... Ben Myers On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:49:53 -0500, "S.Lewis" wrote: "Christopher Muto" wrote in message thlink.net... "S.Lewis" wrote in message ... "Christopher Muto" wrote in message ink.net... fox news, ugh. they also say we are 'winning' the war in iraq. ^^^ That's an official "thread hijack" foul.^^^^^ heh lol. and i thought the thread was a troll created by the microsoft marketing department who used your good name. but seriously, the articles all headline with a suggestion that sales of vista are strong when in fact they are poor. they are not technically wrong, but the headlines do appear to be misleading. why is this happening to so much of our news these days. do people prefer distortion to clear and straightforward facts? or do advertisers really carry so much weight that they call the shots? even the weather reports no longer say 'partly cloudy' but instead say 'partly sunny'. i don't believe it is pessimistic to say partly cloudy, i believe it is being precise. microsoft seems to think that its own forcast is partly sunny and i say it is partly cloudy. Chris - It is happening, my friend, because journalism died many years ago. There is no longer any dividing line between news/opinion and entertainment. Agendas and spin, we all have to weigh the source(s) and usually multiple sources if the subject is important enough to us if we want to come to some reasonable conclusion nearing the truth. My dad retired from newspapering after some 40+ years in the newsroom; I stuck around only for about 11 or 12 years in the revenue departments myself before deciding it was a dying industry. Microsoft is simply pencil-whipping numbers or at least is attempting to fluff Vista numbers against XP numbers that should by all means be smaller due to the market saturation at that time. They're hoping no one will notice. They'ze idjits. -Stew |
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