Ballmer blames pirates for poor Vista sales

Ballmer blames pirates for poor Vista sales

Ballmer admitted to financial analysts that the predictions for Vista had proved ‘overly optimistic’ and he blamed the pirates in China, India, Brazil, Russia and other emerging markets.

He said his final solution would be to increase the intensity Windows Genuine Advantage as part of an effort to squeeze more revenue from developing nations.

If they squeeze too hard their customers will get squished. Some would argue that they already are.

• http://theheadlemur.typepad.com/ravinglunacy/2007/02/windows_genuine.html
• http://chalain.livejournal.com/43015.html
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=295087580543536441

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