Canuck57
Fri May 09 15:23:16 PDT 2008
"NewAncient" <New1233@Ancient.com.uk> wrote in message
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> yep.. triple whammy... that's why balmer is all smiles..
>
> make a crap product, and make even more money than if it was good! lol
>
> I have to confess... its sheer buisness genius... not very smart on the
> long run.. but now they still have cash flow.
>
> XP will be supported up to 2014 I think.. its not going away soon.
It isn't very smart from a long run perspective, but I don't think todays
executives give a rats ass about the long term, and that isn't just a
Microsoft thing.
Todays executives look at a very short term. Just carry me to my annual
bonus and long enough for my options to vest in 6 months. If things mess
up, they still get the golden parachute.
Know one in another company, been slowly cashing out the options, getting
ready to bail. But to bail, they want to be fired for the multi-million
severance package. So they go around firing critical people, crippling the
organization until management wakes up. Currently owns no shares in the
company.
Options for execs should be locked in for 3 years after they leave. Might
give them some longer term vision. Including Ballmer. Maybe develop the
business more and less time spent on how they can personally pillage from
it.
XP will be around for awhile. Just try to tell GM with 284,000 employees
what to do and the costs, they might just publically go Linux if Microsoft
doesn't let them continue to run XP. At say $1000 MS per desktop with
office and tools every 3-5 years, thats $284M. That is clout.
> "Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@unixhome.net> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Chin Yang" <ChinYang@sangaimarket.ch> wrote in message
>> news:bb442$4824c0b3$7105@news.teranews.com...
>>> Im fed up reading posts about how MS has sold 140 million liscences of
>>> Vista, trying to feed us the notion
>>> that somehow vista is actually a successful product.
>>>
>>> You know what I have to say about that? >>>> HOGWASH!
>>>
>>> So how does MS keep on making money while making CRAP products like
>>> VISTA?!?
>>>
>>> Simple. Create a monopoly! Yeah... the Microsoft way!
>>>
>>> Then push your new crap products on new computers ....
>>>
>>> Then say: "See? Our new product (im talking about vista here of course)
>>> is
>>> GREAT and it selling like hotcakes!"
>>>
>>> EHEMMMM.... its selling like hotcakes because you are selling it
>>> preinstalled on new computers dahh......
>>>
>>> And then you have the stupid idiots that see the 140 million number and
>>> say
>>> ... wow... vista is great! its selling so many copies!
>>>
>>> Don't be ridiculous! That's how many new computers are sold anyway! LOL
>>>
>>> And since MS pushes its stupid new vista on new computers (you can get
>>> xp on
>>> some new computers if you go to the right place,
>>> but you must specifically ask for it... at first this was impossible to
>>> do
>>> anyway... MS had excluded XP from ALL new computers! Then some companies
>>> insisted on selling xp due to popular demand.. so MS had to comply very
>>> reluctantly!)
>>>
>>> Lol.... can some idiot vista fanboys eat this sh!t? They actually think
>>> vista is selling because its good?
>>>
>>> Give UBUNTU the monopoly for one and a half year, meaning that it will
>>> be
>>> PUSHED on new computers for 18 months like vista has, and guess what?
>>> 140 computers will have ubuntu! Then guess what? Suddenly all big
>>> software
>>> houses will have ported their apps to work on ubuntu!
>>>
>>> But lets make some thing clear... 140 mill licenses that MS claims does
>>> not
>>> mean that there are 140 million computers actually running
>>> vista-crapista.
>>>
>>> Nope, many dual boot with xp, and forget about vista, many format vista
>>> and
>>> install XP, many just hate their new vista computer and use their old XP
>>> computer
>>> to do actual work, many got the upgrade anytime vista license and never
>>> upgraded! (those are the smart ones)
>>>
>>> People who cannot think, have limited perception of reality, or just
>>> plainly
>>> believe what they want to believe (LIKE DORK FRANK the biggest idiot of
>>> this
>>> newsgroup ever), JUST GIVE ME THE CREEPS!
>>>
>>> Just think of this: If these people can eat whatever they are told, and
>>> actually become fanboys of lies, what OTHER FALSE THINGS do these people
>>> believe?
>>>
>>> These people remind me of how gullible the Germans were and started
>>> listening to Hitler's crap, and actually believed him!
>>>
>>> FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!
>>
>> Quite true. But I suspect there is a reason. Follow this.
>>
>> You buy a new PC, it of course as a consumer model comes with three
>> choices, Vista, Vista or Vista.
>>
>> So you take it home and discover Vista performance is pathetic and
>> missing drivers for some stuff. You go to the vendors web site and don't
>> find Vista drivers.
>>
>> Next, after some 4-6 weeks fighting with Vista and finding out it will
>> not work with your media storage, SP1 is useless, and too late to return
>> the PC. So you decide to go back to XP. So your second purchase of an
>> OS, the Microsoft double dip... you now have 2 OSes.
>>
>> But in a few months XP is going into obselecence. And Microsoft sometime
>> in a year of Vista howling sell the "new and improved" Win7... you will
>> of course go out and buy it for your PC purchase today as by then you
>> can't get decent computer security patches for your XP. I call this the
>> Microsoft not yet patented triple dip.
>>
>> So for some people chasing the Microsoft OS issues, they will be triple
>> dipped for profit. I wonder which Microsoft marketing genius thought of
>> this? The only winner seems to be Microsoft OS sales with less green in
>> our pockets.
>>
>> Needless to say, I am not going to get suckered into a double or triple
>> dip, and just loaded Ubuntu.
>>
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