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Microsoft Finally Finds a Lifestyle It Can Sell | |
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| Time: 17:07 EST/22:07 GMT | News Source: | Posted By: Michael Dragone | ||
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But Microsoft has long struggled to sell a lifestyle. The longstanding pitch, going back to IBM PCs and clones in the early 1980s, was about low cost. Microsoft software and its supporting third-party hardware or services cost less than competitors, mainly IBM. More recently, Microsoft emphasizes value, or, better stated, the value lifestyle. |
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| #1 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at Thursday, May 21, 2009 09:25:05 AM |
| since being freed from MS Watch, Joe's writing has taken off. His analysis has been exceptional. |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:06:17 AM |
| Sure, until the next time he says something even remotely negative about MS, at which point you'll remind us that he's just an uninformed blogger with an agenda. |
| #3 By 23275 (172.16.10.31) at Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:51:42 PM |
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Guys, the face of populism demands that populists ridicule and marginalize those with opinions differing from their own.
You'll note Latch's use of these techniques anytime, I or another Awin member posts a comment. He and others like him cannot allow even relatively insignificant posts to go without some form of insult, or direct challenge. Rather than debate the merits of any side of any issue, populists fall back on tried and true techniques - they do work, but they don't offer much. People like Latch don't offer real solutions, or help and sadly, little of value in any regard. They'll carp and snipe, certainly, but little else as they continue to speak, or write as though their opinions or desires for what they wish to be, actually were supported by facts, and or any sense of reality. It's interesting, as people like Latch present themselves - faux this and faux that... it's hard to understand what they want, really, but quite easy to see that what they offer is very little. |
| #4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, May 21, 2009 02:29:55 PM |
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#3: Guys, the face of populism demands that populists ridicule and marginalize those with opinions differing from their own.
Communism, Socialism, Populism... you're pretty busy with your -isms and labels. Surely, it's not in an attempt to ridicule or marginalize, is it? Surely not. You'll note Latch's use of these techniques anytime, I or another Awin member posts a comment. Yes, specifically parkkker. I don't have a problem with anyone else here other than you two adherents of Ketchumism. He and others like him cannot allow even relatively insignificant posts to go without some form of insult, or direct challenge. Really? Is that anything like your usual game of swooping in on your white horse any time someone says something about MS that displeases you? Rather than debate the merits of any side of any issue, populists fall back on tried and true techniques - they do work, but they don't offer much. People like Latch don't offer real solutions, or help and sadly, little of value in any regard. They'll carp and snipe, certainly, but little else as they continue to speak, or write as though their opinions or desires for what they wish to be, actually were supported by facts, and or any sense of reality. Well, I see lots of opinion and rhetoric in there, but very little fact. Your entire post sounds like you're talking about yourself. When we're talking about MS, there is very little I can directly do to change them other than what I am already doing -- adding my voice to the voices of others who demand better from MS. As an MS apologist, I'm sure you would like nothing better than for me to stop complaining about them. It makes your job of spreading MS rainbows easier when there is no pesky dissenting opinions to stir any debate that deviates from "The Message." it's hard to understand what they want, really, but quite easy to see that what they offer is very little. You know exactly what I want, but your position requires you to pretend that you don't so as to not acknowledge that a problem with MS exists at all. There is a big difference between not knowing, being willfully ignorant and being disingenuous. |
| #5 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:38:51 PM |
| Iketchum, just ignore the little rodent. He'll eventually get as tired of talking to himself in cyberspace as he does in real life and go away. |
| #6 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Friday, May 22, 2009 08:55:19 AM |
| #5: Wow, a stinging (stinking?) rebuke from one of AW's deepest thinkers. I know I've been put in my place. |
