Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Sales   (RSS)

The difference between Vista and Office

Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:33 AM by dstrange
One of the challenges in retail is when customers buy a PC with Windows on it and think they also have Microsoft Office.  They get home all excited to write their first letter on Word and find to their dismay that it isn't installed.  From their Read More...
7 Comments
Filed under: , ,

Random roundup post Christmas

Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:07 PM by dstrange
Hope you had a great Christmas and happy New Year.  I certainly did not work during the break so here is a collection of stuff that I thought was interesting in my inbox when I got back to work today. "A Santa without Excel is like a scrawny Read More...
1 Comments
Filed under: , , ,

Free car with your petrol?

Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:58 AM by dstrange
Do you want fries with that? We call it 'attach' - and there are some crazy examples out there: PC World started offering a free PC with an Orange broadband contract. This seems to have ended now but is says they are offering £300 off selected laptops Read More...
1 Comments
Filed under:

Why does Home and Student edition not include Outlook?

Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:00 PM by dstrange
Good question in today from Andrew Balgarnie - if you have a question or something you'd like me to comment on or look into just use the email link on the header. He says " Given how much you sing the praises of oneNote / outlook integration why doesn't Read More...
5 Comments
Filed under: , , ,

Selling out

Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 1:38 PM by dstrange
Remember that episode of the apprentice when they had to sell stuff on a shopping channel? Well it was my turn on Saturday night when I appeared on QVC 's Small Office Home Office show to sell Home and Student Edition at the very good price of £63.24. Read More...
6 Comments
 
Page view tracker