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Vista Sales Expectations Too High, Office Doing Well

Posted by Zonk on from the business-of-windowing dept.

PetManimal writes "A comparison of first-week retail sales of Vista compared to first-week sales of XP back in 2001 found that Vista sales were 60% lower. Steve Ballmer has admitted that earlier sales forecasts were 'overly aggressive,' but at least there is some good news for Microsoft: early Office 2007 sales were very strong compared to the early sales of Office 2003, despite almost no advertising or marketing until the retail launch at the end of January."

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  1. Queue up the chair jokes! by mingot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then let's settle into a nice discussion about how vista sucks because it's more of the same and office 2007 sucks because it's not more of the same.

    1. Re:Queue up the chair jokes! by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
      > Then let's settle into a nice discussion about how vista sucks because it's more of the same and office 2007 sucks because it's not more of the same.

      You are coming to a sad realization. Deny, allow, or throw chair?

  2. I think you're being a bit unfair..... by StressGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously..you assume that all non slashdotters are NASCAR fans?

    I would really rip into you if it were not so busy following the Anna Nichole Smith scandal ;)

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  3. Amazing! by TheOldSchooler · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's almost as if the crappy product with very little innovation is selling poorly, while the well thought out product that has some innovative features is doing nicely. Who woulda thought.

  4. Re:All I can say is: by FuturePastNow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, another person Experiences the Wow. Cherish this moment.

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  5. Are you sure you want to execute vista-jokes.exe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    *Open FireFox*

    You are trying to open a web browser, do you want to open it?
    [ Continue ] [ Cancel ]
    *continue*

    This web browser was not signed by Microsoft, operation aborted.
    [ Okay ]
    *click* *Open IE*

    You are trying to open a program made by Microsoft. Good choice!
    [ Okay ]
    *click* *slashdot.org*

    You are opening a port to connect to an external website. Are you sure? It might be dangerous.
    [ Continue ] [ Cancel ]
    *continue*

    You are connecting to Slashdot.org. Are you sure you want to go there? How about MSN instead?
    [ Continue ] [ Go to MSN ] [ Cancel ]
    *continue*

    You appear to be posting to Slashdot. Any comment you write might be read by third parties. Are you sure you want to continue?
    [ Continue ] [ Cancel ]
    *continue*

    You appear to be posting material that is disparaging to Microsoft. This is forbidden by section 66, paragraph 6 of your Windows Vista Super Mega Chair Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! ULTIMATE Edition EULA.
    [ Report Yourself to Microsoft for Being Naughty ]
    *BANG* ...

    For sale: Like-new computer w/Vista. Slightly shotgunned.

  6. Re:Thing is... by Deagol · · Score: 4, Funny
    Another biggie was an "illegal" substance in the fuel.

    Damn! Even NASCAR vehicles are doping! WTF has this world come to?!?

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  7. MODS ON CRACK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A poster takes two words completely out of context, incorrectly (he even admitted it), and then gets modded to 5, Insightful as of right now??? What's wrong with you, mods??