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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. Re:Thing is... by MightyYar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ah, I'm too quick with a comment. I need reading comprehension lessons, sorry! :)

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  2. VISTA = Anna Nicole by BoRegardless · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seductive, Bloated, Addictive, Attractive, but DOA.