Re: microsoft download site indicates that my version is not authentic

From: Mike Brannigan [MSFT] (mikebran_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:08:34 -0000

"Steve N." <me@here.now> wrote in message
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>
> I wish Microsoft would hire people that can actually communicate in
> English.
>
> So what's your real name Mike, Shrinivas Bhashkhar Vishnuparamsala Madhu
> Prem?
>
> Namaste`
>
> Steve

What exactly is your point Steve ?
I do use my real name in these groups as I am required to do by our
corporate policy for full time employee posting to public newsgroups.
If you do not have something constructive to add to the thread please
refrain from posting. 

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"Steve N." <me@here.now> wrote in message 
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> Mike Brannigan [MSFT] wrote:
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>> "Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" <mikebran@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
>> news:u7DOXefEFHA.1188@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
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>>>"Tom" <noway@nothere.com> wrote in message
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>>>"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" <mikebran@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>news:eVY5%23RdEFHA.3596@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
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>>>
>>>>You should as lost revenue means less to spend on the Billions of 
>>>>dollars
>>>>each year it costs us to develop Windows and other products for you.
>>>
>>>>So? I have yet to see MS make any price reductions for gained
>>>>revenue from the PA scheme. Their profits sure have been going up and up
>>>>going back decades. Since XP came out well over 3 years ago,
>>>>the retail price has not changed one red cent.
>>>
>>>Two points
>>>
>>>1. if the retail price has not changed ("one red cent" as you state) then 
>>>in
>>>fact it has decreased in real terms while the functionality etc has bee 
>>>ever
>>>increasing.
>>
>>
>>>The functionality has not increased, unless you are saying that writing 
>>>service
>>>packs is increasing functionality, which is wrong as much as it is a fix. 
>>>Name
>>>some beneficial functionalities that have been added other than massive 
>>>security
>>>fixes that have been introduced twice now. In fact SP2 broke my Word 
>>>2003,
>>>and MS response to me was "Case Closed". I didn't get my red cents worth 
>>>from
>>>that either as much as less functionality for something paid for to have 
>>>a (certain)
>>>function; that is an increase of profits through less support.
>>
>>
>> I assume you have actually used a previous version of Windows ?
>> If not maybe some research for you is in order to see the advancements in 
>> Windows functionality since Windows in 1983
>> I cannot comment on your specific case on Word.
>>
>>
>>
>>>2. The costs of developing software have certainly not decreased as the
>>>products have increased in complexity and scope.
>>
>>
>>>Uh Huh,Give me a break!  Tell that to the developers who were prevalent
>>>in the US and are now more so in India; the phone support centers are all
>>>virtually off-shored, and we know how money is saved there. Why am I not
>>>seeing the savings from that? Why has the support gone down?
>>
>>
>> Why do you think we off shore some of our development work ?  Because it 
>> is incredible expensive.  Hence my point.
>> We have already discussed that the real price of Windows has come down in 
>> real terms and any cost saving we can make in development can then be 
>> spent elsewhere.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I wish Microsoft would hire people that can actually communicate in 
> English.
>
> So what's your real name Mike, Shrinivas Bhashkhar Vishnuparamsala Madhu 
> Prem?
>
> Namaste`
>
> Steve
>