Periodic Micro$oft Bashing

Who needs Vista? No one:

First-week retail sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista were almost 60% below sales of boxed copies of Windows XP in the week after its 2001 launch, according to one leading market research group.

If you need it, the safer, better, proven version for safety and features is OS X 10.4 and Parallels. It's not like Vista is particularly safe or plays particularly well with devices and apps. And it's overpriced.

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And then there's this:

Over the years, I have very rarely caught Steve Ballmer saying anything factually accurate.

So here's his crock of the day:

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer believes that sales forecasts for the company's new Vista operating system may be "overly aggressive."

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Let's break this down with a single, simple question:

These analysts based their too high numbers primarily on information from what source -- spelled Microsoft?

God bless the modern monopoly....