On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:
The MS COO could be full of it, but it's very amusing if true.
That's a silly story.
So is the idea of M$ opening retail stores. I can see in my mind's
eye the long line of disgruntled Vista users lined up around the
block to get advice from the Troll Bar.
What are they going to sell? Will they sell M$ branded PCs. Are they
going to pick winners and losers to sell HPs while telling Dell to
take a hike?
As to the phony cost comparisons, I recently price compared high-end
laptops for an NLE application. The Dell was a few $hundred more than
the Apple. The HP cost twice as much as the Apple. The fit and finish
and software integration was far superior on the Apple. A string of
comments on the HP site said things like "a can't believe you are
shipping such an expensive computer with video drivers that don't work."
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