On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Chris Dunford <[email protected]>wrote:
> > MS is planting stories that Windows has driven Linux out of the netbook > > market. According to these stories the return rate on Linux-based > > netbooks has been so huge that retailers have stopped carrying Linux in > > favor of the far superior offering from Microsoft. MS now claims a 90% > > market share and should hit 125% by the Fall. > > "Planting"? I assume you have some evidence that the information is > inaccurate. Please share. > > That 125% bit, that's not a sarcastic cheap shot, is it? > > I just got the picture of Gates and Balmer buying hundreds of Linux machines and returning them. This is the sort of the reverse of how L Ron Hubbard's NYTimes best seller list numbers got run up by the true believers buying the books and returning them to the warehouse where they would go back to the stores with the original sales stickers on them. They got caught out when Daltons got some Walden Book stickers on their books. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
