Let's take the report at face value and do the math. Microsoft
is also charging less than half for Win7 than they were for
Vista, so they are grossing at about the same rate. If you
consider that they plainly didn't realize the revenue they
expected on Vista and they had to pay out some heavy
development costs to get Win7 out quickly, then very likely
they are coming out behind so far. Add to their troubles
the fact that the PC market stinks generally, that MS makes
very little if any on netbook installations of XP, and that the
death of linux on netbooks has been somewhat exaggerated,
keeping MS from ever making much money off of them.
These aren't mortal blows to MS by any means, and they
would have to fall pretty far from here before we could
officially call them "beleaguered" but it is not all sunshine
and blue skies for them, either.
From: tjpa <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Real Windows 7 Reviews Start to Appear
On Nov 7, 2009, at 1:06 PM, mike wrote:
Don't know what it's worth, but 7 is being picked up at a rate of
over 200%
greater than Vista in the same time period.
Standard M$ agitprop. M$ planted the same kind of stories about Vista.
More recently they did the same for Zune and Bing. Just M$ B$.
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