Fear and Marketing at Microsoft

from the how-to-sell-upgrades-in-a-competitive-world dept

A short article in Salon shows two tactics used by Microsoft to get people to get licensed copies of software and to upgrade. The article suggests they are mainly using “fear” tactics, something Microsoft is well known for.


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