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[News] Chips Sales Confirm That Vista Means Nothing (Figures Been Made Up/'Massaged')

Chip sales confirm no Microsoft Vista boom

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| See How Microsoft pretends to flog Vista and Mystery of Microsoft Vista 
| sales stays unanswered.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39274


Related:

Microsoft Refuses to Reveal Current Vista Sales

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| Microsoft on Thursday reported a 65 percent jump in third quarter profits, 
| buoyed by sales of its latest operating system, Vista.
| 
| Exactly how many Microsoft has sold, however, is still a mystery. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Liddell declined to provide exact numbers on how many units of Vista
| the company had sold.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2122837,00.asp


Rumor: Is Microsoft cheating their [Xbox 360] sales?

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| All in all, there are some sobering thoughts with very broad implications
| for any company if that were true. That being said, would you buy
| from Microsoft, or any other company for that matter, if they were
| cheating their sales?
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http://xbox360.qj.net/Rumor-Is-Microsoft-cheating-their-sales-/pg/49/aid/89595


Uh-Oh, Vista! PC Sales Levels Are Normal

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| "Vista hasn't been a catalyst for PC sales," he said. "Looking at the
| weekly data, there really isn't anything happening with sales that
| has anything to do with Vista."
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/oh_oh_vista_pc_sales_levels_are_normal.html


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| "This is a relic of old-line consumer products companies like Philip
| Morris, or fraudsters like Miniscribe who literally shipped bricks in
| lieu of disk drives to hit sales targets.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Channel stuffing is the business practice where a company or a sales
| force within a company inflates its sales figures by forcing more
| products through a distribution channel than the channel is capable
| of selling to the world at large.
| 
| [...]
| 
| We have a game we play around the office here with Microsoft press
| releases. The game is, "Find the words that make the headline true."
| It's not always easy.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Sony, like Microsoft, announces units shipped, not actually sold.
| This allows both companies to advertise sales numbers based on how
| many units they can force retailers to accept, not on how many units
| customers actually buy; both have considerable market power to push
| excess unsold inventory into the channel."
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http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2007/04/microsoft_phili.html


Open Source Fights Back

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| Question: The OpenSourceParking.com announcement cites a Netcraft
| report, which found that GoDaddy.com's migration from Linux to Windows
| caused Apache to lose server share. Was this event the sole impetus
| for OpenSourceParking.com?
|
| Perens: Not the first. It's part of a continuing behavior pattern by
| Microsoft that I think it's fair to call "dirty fighting." GoDaddy was
| using Apache (I assume on Linux) because it was a great technical
| solution. They didn't switch to IIS on Windows Server 2003 for any
| technical reason. The switch was accompanied by a press release by
| GoDaddy, containing Microsoft promotional language. Now, I've changed
| many servers from one thing to another, but I've never made a press
| release about it. GoDaddy wouldn't be doing that unless Microsoft had
| offered them something valuable in return. There has been talk in the
| domain business that Microsoft has been offering the large domain
| registries a wad of cash to switch their parked sites. There is no
| other reason to do this than to influence the Netcraft figures.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=15108

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