> It certainly seems peculiar at first sight that MS would make copies > available to some resellers before official release date. My guess is that > they want it generally available on full shelves by the time they release it > officially, and perhaps past experience has taught them that it's pointless > to ask resellers to keep it off the shelves before that date so they let him > start selling to customers as soon as they have their copies. (I don't > actually know that for a fact - it just seems plausible to me. Guessing)
This is the standard operating procedure for *all* retail product launches AFAIK. The last thing a company wants is to publicly announce and generate a lot of consumer excitement only to have customers not able to actually purchase the advertised product. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
