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The illegal monopoly has announced that it is eliminating a “small percentage” (read:a lot) of marketting jobs. Since marketting is the illegal monopoly’s only reason for retaining its stranglehold on the PC market and since the PC market is shrinking, this move is yet another sign of the coming demise of the illegal satanic monopoly.
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It’s 200 jobs (out of several thousands) and marketing is pretty much the only thing where Microsoft sucks.
Look at Apple – the reason they’ve got 90% of $1000 (read overpriced) laptop market is not that they sell mediocre OS on standard PC hardware – it’s their marketing (one of the most arrogant and deceitful).
Heck, even Google managed to get that “cool” perception even though everything from Google awfully sucks.
Say it ain’t so, Joe (Linuxoid)!
If (shudder) you are right, and M$ marketroids have blown chunks for the last twenty years whilst the people in charge of OS, Office, etc have “built” a “monopoly,” then the loss of two hundred or so of these money-leaking dingbats can only be a positive thing for Voldemort™!
IPredict™ an exponential rise in Windows market share, based on the fact that they’re cutting the fat!
Oh, and Adam: can you quote … no, never mind. Can you recall a single Microsoft marketing campaign that made any sense whatsoever, let alone one that made Microsoft any money?
Marketing is the only reason? Have you SEEN Microsoft’s ads? Have you SEEN their inconsistent marketing? Have you SEEN how they create brand after brand and then abandon them?
I can falsify your claims that Microsoft is successful because if its marketing with one word: Zune.
“Have you SEEN how they create brand after brand and then abandon them?”
Well, of course Adam has, you silly person.
Where do you think Shuttleworth half-baked all his GUI ideas from? Apple!
Where do you think the constant churn of cretinous marketing ideas (Beefy Miracle, etc) in Linux was borrowed from? Microsoft!
Not only are they incompetent Cargo Cultists, but they can’t even pick the right source to steal from…
If they’re such a monopolist, why do they even need to advertise?
I don’t see ads from my water company.
I almost never see ads from the electricity company.
Actual monopolies tend not to actually have large advertising departments, because — and having to actually say this depresses me to no end — they are not competing with anyone for your patronage. The one exception I can think of when you are “monopolizing” a growing market — there you are convincing people not using electricity to enjoy the wonders of indoor light at night. Otherwise, they’re more likely to use that money for other endeavors — buying off politicians for instance.
Or in a technology example, how many iPod commercials do you see now, as compared to six years ago.
If your argument is Microsoft is failing because they are no longer advertising, you are in backwards land.
Mark $shuttleworth (M$) continues to crumble? You bet he is, after all these years pouring money into a permanently money-losing project.
Amusingly, I just posted in another thread about how Microsoft’s marketing has always been terrible, open the next tab and … here we are. Whee.
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