OMG! Microsoft iz like totally angry at Apple and just sent out a letter where itz all like “We sold nearly 20 million Windows Mobile Smartphones” and it even sent letters to a bunch of analysts saying that and even if it is true WTF right? Like Apple was totally OK wt Microsoft and then we saw them at Dairy Queen and Microsoft was in Intel’s car and Apple was going to get in and Microsoft was all like no getout and we had to drive Apple home and Apple wz almost crying!
And get this: Microsoft was all like in February saying “we’re going to sell more than 20 million” and now itz saying “nearly.” That’s like lying! Totally!
As recently as February, Microsoft said it expected to sell “more than 20 million” Windows Mobile licenses in the current fiscal year, which concludes at the end of this month. In today’s letter, Microsoft’s Andy Lees instead says the company “will sell nearly 20 million Windows Mobile smartphone licenses.”
Is the change from “more than” to “nearly” a meaningful hedge? Some might read it that way. But Microsoft representatives say no.
“We’ve always said our goal has been 20 million, and we’re on track,” said Scott Rockfeld, group product manager in the company’s Mobile Communications Business, when asked about the change. “If it’s short of 20 million, it’s going to be a rounding error.”
Microsoft is such a slut.
Learn how to write, man!!
ZOMG, this is like best post ever. :-) some people seems to never get the joke, btw. Oh, and someone should remember MSFT that nearly 20M licenses for dozens of phones is nearly bad.
Informative and entertaining? Can’t they both just get along? Yes, thanks to writers like you who aren’t terrified to try the unconventional. Great post!
microwsoft iz like….goin to get totally pwned this June 9th…..again! …….like totally!
iPhone ascendent.
The letter said “licenses”, not devices with WinMo.
Microsoft does not sell hardware, they only sell software licenses, so they have to state their sales figures as the number of licenses sold. If a manufacturer puts Microsoft’s software on a device, that is legitimately a “license sold” because Microsoft sold the license. The measure that would be comparable to Apple’s iPhone sales would be “licenses activated.” However, I don’t recall an activation process. So this is the only figure they can give.
Unlike Apple, which sells devices, Microsoft cannot know how many licenses never made it out of the back room and into a customer’s hands.
Microsoft cannot report how many devices were sold because they don’t know.
I’d be jealous of Apple too. Wait till iPhone 2 is out, here come the water works.
LOL.. next they’ll say their on track to sell a dozen Zunes now that its available in Canada.
It’s funny how people accept gross exaggerations and outright lies from Apple in their ads, on their websites, and so on about their so-called “innovations” or how MS sucks in comparison. But when Microsoft touts its real strengths that it usually does such a poor jjob marketing, people (or rather, Apple Fan boys) have a problem with that.
I don’t like to take sides, but I have no respect for ANY company whose marketing strategy is based on nothing but lies. Apple does make products that look great, and work great after the first version. Why not focus on that and spare us the lies about innovations or how competitors don’t have feature X when they’ve had it for years. Nothing irks me more than the claim that PCs are just good for “piecharts and spreadsheets”, or that auto-complete in a soft-keyboard is an “apple innovation”.
LOL They’re just using plain old numbers to