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PC Makers Say Vista Is Not a Seller
TekkaDon writes "According to computer and component manufacturers, Vista is not the hotcake that they were hoping for. Take Acer's president, Gianfranco Lanci, who has just said that 'PC makers are really not counting on Vista to drive high demands for the industry.' Or Samsung Electronics, who now says that DRAM demand has not matched anyone's predictions based on Vista's now failed projections, something that is being echoed by the industry as a whole. This seem to agree with Ars Technica article on the 20 million Vista copies sold as a 'huge success' by Microsoft, which can be accounted for by the natural growth of PC sales over the years."
Most people buy computers for the applications they can run on them, not because of the new shiny user interface provided by the operating system.
-- Even if a god did exist, why the fsck should I worship it?
" DRAM demand has not matched anyone's predictions based on Vista's now failed projections"
Skipping through the intro quickly, I read that as " DRM demand has not matched anyone's predictions based on Vista's now failed projections" and thought it was saying that lack of interest in DRM was a contribution to Vista not selling as well as they hoped.