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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Spins Vista Upgrade Outrage to Boast 'Sales'

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Spins Vista Upgrade Outrage to Boast 'Sales'
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 10:34:43 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <1659842.a5fZe7skns@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Moduslink blames OEMs for Vista upgrade delays
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In an earlier story about the delayed upgrades, Microsoft had told El
> | Reg that ModusLink had simply been overwhelmed by a "spike" in demand
> | for Vista.
> | 
> | However, Pothier debunked the claim and said: "The number of orders
> | was not overwhelming and has nothing to do with why shipment was
> | delayed; it has solely to do with the fact that we didn't have the
> | product to ship."
> `----
> 
> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/05/08/moduslink_vista_upgrade/
> 
> Typical.

Pathetic, is the word I'd have used.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
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