From: mike 

> Why should they change their attitude?

Resentful, locked-in customers are rarely the things long-term business
models are made of.

 /m





On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:44:48 -0500, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>Why should they change their attitude?  With corps and enterprise
>agreements along with preloads, the [b]*$$$*[/b] will come rolling in.
>
>On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:39:03 -0500, mike  wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:23:35 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> James Allchin in clarifying his Mac comment seemed to state that Vista
>>> development was scrapped ( he used 'reset' ) and started over mid 2004
>>>
>>>
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&tax
onomyName=macintosh&articleId=9005926&taxonomyId=123
>>>
>> What need to change was Microsoft's attitude towards its end-users.  Mr.
>> Allchin says it better, "...I'm not sure how the company lost sight of
>> what matters to our customers, both business and home, the most, but in
>> my view we lost our way."
>>
>> I notice that Allchin said nothing about that attitude changing.
>>
>>  /m

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