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____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 01 October 2008 12:15 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 30 September 2008 15:54 : \____
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>>>> Classmate PC gets a boost with million-unit Venezuelan order
>>>>
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>>>>| The Classmate PC units that will be distributed to schools in Venezuela
>>>>| and Portugal will ship preinstalled with a custom flavor of the Linux
>>>>| operating system.
>>>>
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080929-classmate-pc-gets-a-boost-with-million-unit-venezuelan-order.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> Isn't it amazing... only a few months ago, so many shills were arguing
>>> that people in poor countries "need shoes not computers" and other such
>>> rot. It really didn't take long for the view to change, did it?
>>
>> Well, IDC insisted that Linux 'fans' should be excited about 13% market
>> share (server). A month later comes out Steve Ballmer saying that "Linux"
>> [sic] has 60% in servers. His he refuting the very same shillnalysts whom he
>> paid so much to lie in public?
>>
>
> The failures at the LSE cannot have done MS any good, although I'm still
> more than a little amazed that the LSE even considered using Windows in
> such a critical environment.
>
> One has to wonder where the 60% figure came from, though? Is Microsoft
> about to start another round of negotiation with a legal/governmental
> entity somewhere? Is one of the oversight deals up for re-negotiation?
>
> At that point, usually, we see Microsoft claiming to be the little fish
> with some nasty big competitor busily cleaning up...
It tries this against Yahoo/Google [1] and VMware [2] (examples from
yesterday).
Don't forget that Microsoft harvests a lot of data from people's desktops
('phoning home' is mandatory) and it also has access to analysts whom the
chiefs pay handsomely to measure the wrong things in the wrong way. Even
Gartner says -- albeit separately -- that Linux is on about 1 in 20 desktops.
And that doesn't even include dual-boots, I think...
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[1]
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10052352-75.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 'Microsoft's "opportunity
to democratize virtualization."'
[2]
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10053365-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 'Early
on, she takes issue with a statistic thrown around by Microsoft that the deal
gives Google 90 percent share of the search-ad market, a statistic that
derives from combining the two companies' individual share. "That's just plain
wrong," she said. "It's important to note that the agreement is non-exclusive
and gives us the option to 'backfill' with Google ads if and when we see fit.
The reason we structured the deal this way--rather than a more typical
exclusive deal with revenue commitments to us and traffic commitments to
Google--was precisely to avoid the issues the critics are raising."'
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