On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:36:48 -0500, Duncan Meyer wrote:
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1617919.zsdBk1UuXr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 28 January 2008 18:36 : \____
>>
>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
>>> <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote
>>> on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:14:45 -0500
>>> <6w5kx0vfm91c$.1xx52p6zpst97$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:49:07 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> From a reliable source I hear that it's the same old business.
>>>>> "If you can get hold of this article, it is probably time to dig
>>>>> it out again and use in the context of the current financial
>>>>> troubles. Microsoft execs bluff like anything, but basically it
>>>>> seems much of the Vista sales aren't sales." I've said that for
>>>>> over a year.
>>>>
>>>> More Schestowitz FUD.
>>>>
>>>> While I agree with you that MS and IBM and etc are fudging the numbers,
>>>> I
>>>> say so as an opinion.
>>>>
>>>> You act like it is fact...
>>>>
>>>> So where is your proof Roy Schestowitz?
>>>>
>>>> "A reliable source" doesn't cut it, although in COLA it probably does,
>>>> sadly enough.
>>>>
>>>> Haven't the minions in COLA had enough of this clown Roy Schestowitz?
>>>>
>>>> Why not ask him for proof?
>>>
>>> Microsoft is not fudging the numbers. If one wishes to
>>> accuse Microsoft of fudging the numbers, one has to go
>>> through the legal process. Sowing rumors won't cut it.
>>>
>>> In any event Microsoft presumably realizes revenues
>>> whenever Vista is installed on a machine; the machine need
>>> not reach the consumer or actually be sold. Another,
>>> more troubling scenario is that the unit is sold anyway
>>> with Vista and *another* license for XP is burned as the
>>> customer replaces the one with the other. A third license
>>> may be burned in the future when Vista SP2 comes out.
>>>
>>> Microsoft presumably makes a lot of money that way, and the
>>> customer of course gets what he wants: a working machine.
>>>
>>> (That he has to pay three times may not be that much of
>>> a concern to him. Of course one might as well ask the
>>> obvious question of why it's not to Microsoft's advantage
>>> to get it all right the first time, but Microsoft, like
>>> Linux, is also shooting at a moving target; hardware does
>>> not stand still. To be sure, many of Vista's problems do
>>> not appear to be hardware related....)
>
> Blah, blah, blah. So a paid spammer like you who's never even had a job
> knows all about finances but every person who works on Wall Street and stock
> exchanges around the world is clueless. They don't understand what's "really
> happening" but you do. Idiot.
>
> Where did you get your financial understanding from... "financial balance
> sheet expert" Mark Kent who doesn't even know what a TANGIBLE asset is?
>
>
>
>> Windows doesn't make much money. Office does. See:
>>
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01/25/financial-deception-microsoft/
>>
>
>
>> You'll find some more concrete evidence there.
>
> What you call "concrete evidence" most people would call bullshit.
Roy Schestowitz knows full well it's bull shit.
He's just hoping few will take the time to check.
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