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[citation][nom]Infinity4011[/nom]Your statement shows how little you know about retail environments. Most retail stores only pay for books, magazines, movies, and games/software that they sell. Not that they get shipped to them. There are exceptions, but generally if a retailer like Wal-mart, Target, or Best Buy doesn't sell it, then the vendors, merchandisers, and sales representatives from the various distribution companies have to come and pick it back up and take it back. The final word is, the sale is only a sale once it is scanned at the register and removed from the retailer's inventory. This only applies to OS licenses sold to stores as retail box copies, however. Licenses packaged in with whatever garbage is on the shelf in the store are already sold, but those were sold to someone else.Also, you know very little about manufacturing. Companies do not buy massive amounts of something in order for it to sit in a warehouse waiting to be mated up with other components and a finished product built out of it. Nearly all factories only maintain enough inventory to build a certain amount of product over a certain length of time, and it doesn't make sense to order many hundreds of thousands of something only to wait for it to be mated up with other assembly materials.[/citation]
You're very condescending for someone who basically just quoted right back to me what I said. My point was, Microsoft says it shipped 400-million windows 7 licenses. That does NOT mean there are 400-million Windows 7 users out there. Many of those licenses (couple million at least), are sitting around on any number of retail shelves or warehouse stockrooms. Now, whether or not Microsoft got paid for them isn't even the point. The point I made was that Microsoft claims they shipped 400-million licenses(which may be right), but that doesn't mean there are 400-million Windows 7 users (or even installs).
Of course, maybe reading isn't your strong point, lets try some math (yeah, I'm being condescending too, surprise). If OEMs made 591million computers in 20 months, and half of those had Windows 7, they made almost 15-million windows computers a month. Now, if you buy ONLY 1-months worth of licenses, guess what, OEMs (collectively) are sitting on 15-million Windows 7 licenses. That's not speculation, that's math. Maybe they only buy a week in advance, that's still 3-million licenses. So, maybe you skipped math during all those manufacturing courses you must have taken. As for retail copies, go to Best Buy and do some counting, probably 20 boxes sitting on the shelf, and a couple-dozen display PCs (and maybe a couple dozen more in stock). With over 1,100 retail outlets around the world, thats 1,100 * (20 + 48) = 74,800 licenses of windows 7, collecting dust on Best Buy shelves. I don't care who paid for what, but Microsoft counts every one of those when it says it has shipped 400-million.
Same with record labels. They may ship 10-million copies of a CD, that's the number they report, doesn't matter if all 10-million get shipped right back and they never make a dime off them.
[citation][nom]belardo[/nom]A) Shelves are restocked.B) Most of those boxes are EMPTY, you buy the software and the actual box is given to you afterwards (Costco / Frys, Sams, etc)[/citation]
What's your point? So the box is empty, they STILL have the damn license to sell you. You don't bring up an empty box, and they call Microsoft on the phone, and Microsoft sends an email with your license and they print it out in the back for you. They HAVE the license, it just might not literally be sitting on the shelf.
You're very condescending for someone who basically just quoted right back to me what I said. My point was, Microsoft says it shipped 400-million windows 7 licenses. That does NOT mean there are 400-million Windows 7 users out there. Many of those licenses (couple million at least), are sitting around on any number of retail shelves or warehouse stockrooms. Now, whether or not Microsoft got paid for them isn't even the point. The point I made was that Microsoft claims they shipped 400-million licenses(which may be right), but that doesn't mean there are 400-million Windows 7 users (or even installs).
Of course, maybe reading isn't your strong point, lets try some math (yeah, I'm being condescending too, surprise). If OEMs made 591million computers in 20 months, and half of those had Windows 7, they made almost 15-million windows computers a month. Now, if you buy ONLY 1-months worth of licenses, guess what, OEMs (collectively) are sitting on 15-million Windows 7 licenses. That's not speculation, that's math. Maybe they only buy a week in advance, that's still 3-million licenses. So, maybe you skipped math during all those manufacturing courses you must have taken. As for retail copies, go to Best Buy and do some counting, probably 20 boxes sitting on the shelf, and a couple-dozen display PCs (and maybe a couple dozen more in stock). With over 1,100 retail outlets around the world, thats 1,100 * (20 + 48) = 74,800 licenses of windows 7, collecting dust on Best Buy shelves. I don't care who paid for what, but Microsoft counts every one of those when it says it has shipped 400-million.
Same with record labels. They may ship 10-million copies of a CD, that's the number they report, doesn't matter if all 10-million get shipped right back and they never make a dime off them.
[citation][nom]belardo[/nom]A) Shelves are restocked.B) Most of those boxes are EMPTY, you buy the software and the actual box is given to you afterwards (Costco / Frys, Sams, etc)[/citation]
What's your point? So the box is empty, they STILL have the damn license to sell you. You don't bring up an empty box, and they call Microsoft on the phone, and Microsoft sends an email with your license and they print it out in the back for you. They HAVE the license, it just might not literally be sitting on the shelf.