Re: Re: Why MS Won't Retire Browsers -- was: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2
| From: | Jochem Maas | Date: | Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:46:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Why MS Won't Retire Browsers -- was: Interntet Explorer 8 beater 2 | ||
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Ashley Sheridan schreef:
On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 18:35 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote:yes and no, Office is a very big cashcow if you recall.why do the vast majority people keep buying M$?Well, do they really?
I mean, most sales of Windows come from the sales of computers, because Microsoft give very nice incentives to retailers who bundle their OS with a PC...M$ structure the market in such a way that retailers et al don't have any choice in the matter, it's not so much 'nice incentives' as 'take the hint it's good for you either that or we'll burn you' nonetheless people still buy the PCs. but that's not the point, the point is that the concept of choice has been completely warped to the extent that people generally believe that being offered 400 different cartons of milk equates to freedom ... it's a marketing trick of the highest order ... niether freedom nor choice come into it. applying such convoluted concepts to linux is actually counter-productive, the only real beneficiaries to the linux distro holy-wars are the boys at M$. would be interesting to know how much money M$ pump into various distros to keep them finghting amongst themselves, I'm guessing that the figure is above zero.
It sounds a bit like when Microsoft announced how many people were downloading the IE7 browser, when in actual fact it had been forcing it on users with the automatic system updates, and was still counting those as user requested downloads!it's statistically proven that you can prove anything with statistics.