From: "John Beamish" 

Yup.  Never confuse purchasers with target market.

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:53:02 -0500, mike  wrote:

>
> That is exactly the core problem.  Microsoft's users (customers) are not
> the end users of Windows, Microsoft's users (customers) are the media
> companies, the PC OEMs.
>
> The end-users of Windows are merely chattel, the captive attention of
> which is sold to the media companies.
>
>
>  /m
>
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:08:56 -0500, "John Beamish"
>  wrote:
>
>> They did.  You just don't understand who MS's users are.
>>
>> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:00:53 -0500, Geo  wrote:
>>
>>> "mike"  wrote in message
>>> news:h67po2ltuq7curjlamk1r18mj3lpbqjoin{at}4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "...The Vista Content Protection specification could very well
>>>> constitute the longest suicide note in history...."
>>>
>>> Gee, if only they had spent half this effort on adding features for the
>>> users...
>>>
>>> Geo.
>>>
>>>

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