Comments on: Microsoft is totally jealous of Apple

By: web design company

web design company — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:49:27 +0000

LOL They’re just using plain old numbers to

By: ejbeyuavawr

ejbeyuavawr — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:13:16 +0000

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”.

By: slappy

slappy — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:26:13 +0000

LOL.. next they’ll say their on track to sell a dozen Zunes now that its available in Canada.

By: Nobody Important

Nobody Important — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:49:05 +0000

I’d be jealous of Apple too. Wait till iPhone 2 is out, here come the water works.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:33:22 +0000

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.

By: Toma

Toma — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:28:57 +0000

The letter said “licenses”, not devices with WinMo.

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:15:31 +0000

iPhone ascendent.

By: Olternaut

Olternaut — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:26:28 +0000

microwsoft iz like….goin to get totally pwned this June 9th…..again! …….like totally!

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:20:43 +0000

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!

By: Terence

Terence — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:02:00 +0000

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.

By: smart

smart — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:37:59 +0000

Learn how to write, man!!