Roy Schestowitz espoused:
> ____/ [H]omer on Friday 19 October 2007 13:39 : \____
>
>> PC retailer's hard facts contradicts Microsoft's success claims:
>>
>> .----
>> | While Microsoft continues to praise the market success of its
>> | latest operating system, the number of critical voices and negative
>> | comments on sales figures for Vista continues to rise. Now, the
>> | Dixon Store Group (DSG), a British retail chain, has released
>> | specific figures. The firm says that it earned 20 million pounds
>> | less in the first two quarters of the year because sales of Vista
>> | products did not meet expectations.
>> |
>> | The DSG says it has had to write off excess inventory, which
>> | brought down the retailer's gross margin by 2 percent. The Group
>> | says that far fewer Vista computers were sold at its PC World chain
>> | than were put on inventory.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.heise.de/english/newstick...655/from/rss09
>
> Join the club and start exploring Linux.

It's not good, is it? Missing sales targets by £20 million in 6 months
is pretty awful. Clearly, if they're just not selling, then the
channel-stuffing problem will reveal itself fairly soon.

I suspect that the price will probably fall quite significantly now, as
the retailers look for any way of cutting their losses. I can't see
them doing any such big deals with Microsoft in the future, though.

>
> Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
>
> ,----[ Quote
>| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
>| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
>| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
>|
>| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
>| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
>| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
>| Lenovo.
>|
>| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
> `----
>
> http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/...SS&NewsID=9579
>
> A move to Linux worked well for Dell.
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Initially, I was skeptical about Dell's decision to sell selected consumer
>| PCs with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed.
>|
>| But after a few days of testing, I'm a skeptic no more. And I'm not alone.
>| Dell insiders tell me that the Ubuntu PCs, introduced in late May, are
>| selling well -- though they decline to share exact sales figures with
>| me.
> `----
>
> http://software.seekingalpha.com/article/39413
>
> It keeps spreading ("like cancer", to use Ballmer's words)
>
> Linux Rolls On [to other countries]
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Know some of you saw this in last week's post, but I wanted to be clear that
>| Dell does have plans to offer Linux to more consumers in additional locations
>| outside the United States. More details to come later this summer. We will
>| also offer Ubuntu to small business customers in the future. *
> `----
>
> http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archi.../06/20256.aspx
>


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____/ Mark Kent on Friday 19 October 2007 20:29 : \____

> I can't see
> them doing any such big deals with Microsoft in the future, though.

Maybe they can stock some door wedges (aka Zune) and have Microsoft happy to
channel-stuff in another department. Oh, wait. Microsoft already
channel-stuffed Zunes and lied in press releases.

What else is not new?

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