Advanced

Microsoft's master stroke: Pay store staff per WinPhone sold

Posted by tracyanne on · 2 comments
The Register
Mail this story
Print this story

Redmond fights back with its favourite weapon: money Open... and Shut Microsoft, which has suffered years of irrelevance in mobile, has a new game plan, which looks suspiciously like its old game plan: pay retail employees to sell Windows.…

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Groups: Microsoft; Story Type: News Story

» Get new stories by e-mail: nightly or as they are published

« Return to the newswire homepage

  Related stories
» More like this

Comments (2)

What if they couldn't arm-twist OEMs into favouring MS-based products, and brick-and-mortar stores stocked display counters with what customers wanted to buy?

Remember how back in the heyday of the netbook (eg. Eee 901) we used to ask that very question?

Now we know. The question is officially settled.

I guess providing big-box retail chains with "training materials / training courses" is no longer sufficient.

It'll backfire on them, just like everything else Ballmer has tried.

Sales dweebs who try to appear that they *like* the LosePhone, will merely come across like the "Windows 7 Release Party" video, creepy confirmations of the saying:

Upton Sinclair wrote:It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

Post a comment

A free account is needed to post. Write your comment here first: your text is kept in this browser while you sign up or log in, and is waiting for you when you come back.

Your message:
|||||
10
Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, [text](https://link), - lists, > quotes, $x^2$ for math. Formatting help

Sign up and post (it is free)  or  Log in and post