One response to “Microsoft makes $4,000,000,000 in quarterly net profit”

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   sethness May 18th, 2010 at 01:42

   I’m disappointed at how easily you’re swallowing the MS party line, Woody.

   MS pulled the same sort of smoke-and-funhouse-mirrors playacting accounting when they released Vista and the Xbox.

   To pump up the apparent appeal of their products, their marketing weenies misrepresent important numbers. Most importantly, they count as CURRENT sales the many, many forced contracts for FUTURE OEM and corporate purchases. For example, if Asus, Dell, and HP are strongarmed into signing contracts to buy and install Win7 on their laptops for the remainder of 2010, MS’s marketing weenies count the entirety of those sales as having occurred NOW to pump up the apparent public appeal of their latest unpolished turd. And of course, nothing prevents them from parading those selfsame “sales” as SECOND time later on when they actually come to fruition…one sale, but two appearances in marketing weenie news releases.

   We’re also not given the details on how many people retrograde to an earlier (polished turd) version of Windows after having had Win7 forcefed.

   We don’t even have accurate statistics about how many people, especially IT professionals who’d rather stick with the devils they know, would have wanted WinXP if MS had offered it as an option.

   In short, let’s approach these so-called sales “statistics” with a great deal of skepticism, and recognize that MS’s sales team is not the most honest of marketing engines. I’d sooner believe that professional WWF wrestling is real, than trust in the impartial accuracy of an MS salesteam press release.