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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (62316)10/29/2001 9:29:05 PM
From: t2  Respond to of 74651
 
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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (62316)10/29/2001 9:29:05 PM
From: t2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
I guess the consumer doesn't feel abused by MSFT. My local Best Buy ran out of XP upgrade on the 1st day.

Seriously?
I thought a lot more people were picking their copies online from Amazon.com etc..and that would mean sales figures could be underestimated.

If the regular retailers are indicating good sales, that is a very good sign.



To: John F. Dowd who wrote (62316)10/29/2001 9:29:24 PM
From: David Howe  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74651
 
I stopped off at Comp USA tonight and they said they were seeing very high demand for Win XP. They weren't sold out, but they did say it was the most popular software release in years.

I've spent 6 months now debating this with various people on the motley fool MSFT boards. These people thought that XP would be a "flop" and that nobody would buy it when Linux was free, etc. etc. blah, blah, blah.

How wrong were they?!


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