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mg seigler's tech crunch commentary - mg seigler raps on microsoft lyrics

the rapg*nius breakdowns of recent andrew mason and warren buffet statements by marc andreessen and ben horowitz are, well, g*nius. and they got me thinking back to some of my favorite blog posts along the same lines: breaking down corporate speak, vagueness, or pure bullsh-t line-by-line. strolling down memory lane, i landed upon this post from june of 2010, in which i broke down some high and mighty numbers put forth by microsoft’s communications chief frank shaw

then i had to read his post again. i almost couldn’t believe it. nearly every number boasted about two and a half years ago has now turned against microsoft. i mean, it looks really bad. and it’s probably why we get bland press releases instead of mouthy or frank updates. such updates have a tendency to come back and bite you in the -ss

so let’s let the -ss-biting begin, shall we?

shaw kicks his post off by touting some impressive windows 7 sales numbers. but then he pulls back to say that he’s going to let microsoft’s numbers speak for themselves. except he’s not really doing that. instead, he carefully aligns each number against numbers from rival companies in an effort to make microsoft look good. unfortunately for shaw, the numbers that made microsoft look good in 2010 make them look bad in 2013

150,000,000
number of windows 7 licenses sold, making windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history

having just launched windows 8, microsoft has been a bit vague in terms of actual sales numbers. they’ve stated that 60 million licenses have been sold (in other words, most to oems, not directly to consumers) and that the trajectory is “similar” to that of windows 7. nothing necessarily wrong with any of that — unless you believe that each new windows version should be bigger than the last

technically, if microsoft is to be believed, they sold 60 million licenses for windows 7 in 74 days and 60 million licenses for windows 8 in 75 days. very close, but not enough to overtake the “fastest growing operating system in history” bestowed by shaw

and just to compare apples to oranges for a second, at the 60 million in 75 days, microsoft is selling exactly 800,000 windows 8 licenses a day. impressive. but perhaps not impressive as the fact that apple averaged selling 833,000 ios devices a day last quarter. which leads us to shaw’s next 2010 stat…

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