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Microsoft Expects 1 Billion Windows Users by 2010

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the a-third-of-those-will-be-spam-slaves dept.

prostoalex writes "The head of Microsoft Windows client division claimed there will be 1 billion Windows users by 2010, while nowadays there are 600 million of them, Microsoft-Watch reports. 35% of Microsoft's enterprise customers are still running Windows 9x and they are ripe for upgrade. Currently Microsoft's desktop PC market share is at 96%, with the closest rival - MacOS from Apple Computer - being installed on 2.8% of the desktops."

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  1. Re:The MacDonald's of Operating Systems? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I mod your post, '+1, Fucking Retarded'.

  2. Re:Windows in 2010 by chegosaurus · · Score: -1, Troll

    LOL!!!! And that's when my gentoo compile finishes and the 2.6 kernel hits debian stable!!!!!!!!!! OMG teh funny!!!

  3. Re:Winds of Change by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Its either ignorant or just plain sad that you hold on to your little fantasy in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

  4. tee hee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...linux, 1%, tee hee. And they are all the people that wrote it, eating their own dog food, yummy.

  5. That's 96% of existing computer users by rd_syringe · · Score: 1, Troll

    Microsoft is saying they expect even more people using computers and using Windows. Yes, they currently have 96% of existing computer users, but they're just saying more people will be using computers and that they will be running Windows.