XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: jedi@nomad.mishnet   
      
   On 2011-03-16, amicus_curious  wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"  wrote in message   
   > news:ilp2ng$mb2$4@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >> In message <4d6d9465$0$23954$ec3e2dad@unlimited.usenetmonster.com>,   
   >> amicus_curious wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:ikidjt$acn$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >>>   
   [deletia]   
   >>> People want to see improvements to Windows and they will wait for those   
   >>> improvements and when they occur, they will eagerly install or purchase   
   >>> the updates.   
   >>   
   >> Have you noticed that practically nobody has purchased Windows upgrades in   
   >> the last 10 years? Essentially all of Microsoft’s Windows sales have come   
   >> from preinstallations with new machines.   
   >>   
   >> I guess that shows how much people really care about Windows.   
   >   
   > You could take it that way, but you would be wrong.  Certainly Microsoft   
   > does get a few billion in sales of a new release as part of the hubbub they   
      
       These are not really "new" sales though.   
      
       They're just milking the same old cash cow that they have been milking   
   since the days of MS-DOS. For all practical purposes, Windows 7 is just the   
   latest version of MS-DOS.   
      
   [deletia]   
      
        No one is interested in Windows itself. It's just part of the furniture.   
      
        Of course you can't handle this fact because it's contrary to all of the   
   nonsense you Lemmings try to spew to denigrate anything else.   
      
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      Nevermind the pirates. Sony needs to worry about it's own back catalog. |||   
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