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MS Says Vista Selling At Twice XP's Pace
Several readers made us aware that Microsoft said today that it sold more than 20 million Windows Vista licenses in the first month after the OS's general debut on January 30. This compares to 17 million licenses of XP sold in the first two months after its release. (Just a coincidence the announcement came out a day after this community's speculation, surely.) Most of the coverage of this story, picked up from Reuters, looks like it follows an MS press release. The Associated Press dug deeper, noting that since XP's release the overall PC market has grown by almost a factor of 2, so it would be a surprise if Vista didn't do twice as well: "...51 million PCs were sold to consumers worldwide in 2002; this year... 96 million consumers will buy a computer." Also, Microsoft's 20 million figure includes the backlog of upgrade coupons bundled with XP computers sold since last October.
The point is, is that they could have just continued to sell XP for the next 5 years, and not wasted 5 billion on the development of Vista. They would still be selling just as many computers, and they would have a much easier time on maintenance because a lot of the bugs have been worked out of XP.
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You must not like your mom. Why didn't you just get her a MacBook? Show her some love.
That might be the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. ...or were you thinking of support contracts?
The short answer is NO.
The logic that led to you think that Mac & Linux sales should have doubled due to doubling PC market will likely inhibit you from understanding this...but here it goes anyway.
The only (legitimate) way to get windows is to buy it - so sales == (legitimate) distribution.
Linux, on the other hand is freely available, download from anywhere -- there are no sales figures!!
Disclaimer: I use Linux. I would be a Mac fanboy - in fact I want to be - except that I can't afford one, or ideally three.
Then maybe you should look. Just quickly I found these:
From http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/archive/20 07/03/07/internal-amd-memo-encourages-rapid-compan y-wide-vista-adoption.aspx/
Vista is being deployed at AMD from the top-down, with about 100 users (most of the AMD executives, plus others) using it right now, with many others coming online soon.
From http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20 393236%5E16123%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html/
Westpac bank is rolling out Vista onto 20,000 desktops.
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+2 Informative my ass. Astroturfers in full effect. BOTH links in this posting are dead.
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While you're at it, quit counting gas pumps, cash registers, truck scales, dry cleaner retrieval systems, toll booth RFI readers and passenger car engine computers amongst PC sales and we'll see some really different deployment ratios of PC/Mac/Linux.
I don't mind as long as they count the number of Linux deployments in the same way. You will need to count my Linksys router, 3 Hawking Technologies print servers, 2 SimpleTech SimpleShare NAS drives, and one GPS Nav unit in addition to my 3 Ubuntu installations.
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