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40M Vista Licenses in 100 Days

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the allright-who-did-it dept.

Gary writes "In the first 100 days since its launch in Jan 30 Windows Vista has sold an astounding 40 million licenses. Bill Gates gives the credit to accelerating consumer shift to digital lifestyles which has made it the fastest selling operating system in history. Surprisingly the more expensive premium editions accounted for 78 percent of Vista sales. With around 400,000 licenses a day new Vista users will take 8 weeks to beat Mac users, 4 days to exceed Mac sales and 3 days to exceed Linux desktop users."

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  1. Hmm.. by Mockylock · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news... China sells 40 million of it's OWN copies.

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    1. Re:Hmm.. by dna_(c)(tm)(r) · · Score: 5, Funny
      Can't RTFA (since appear to be /.'d), but I just wonder, how many of these licenses were sold to Dell, Toshiba, HP, etc... And since there are no more XP, well...

      Apparently, they sell even more licenses than Debian, Gentoo and Ubuntu together. Wohoo! Amazing.

      Maybe it's just the longest overdue OS release ever. "...4 days to exceed Mac sales and 3 days to exceed Linux desktop users", more like 6 years and 4 or 3 days.

    2. Re:Hmm.. by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't even use a spelling or grammar checker anymore. If I have any doubt, just post it on /. and wait for 100 anal-retentive, pedantic grammar-nazis to nit-pick it to death. It's great to have a community of Asperberger's victims at my disposal.

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    3. Re:Hmm.. by Pharmboy · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other news... China sells 40 million of it's OWN copies.

      Correction:

      In other news... China sells 40 million of it's OWN copy.

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    4. Re:Hmm.. by khraz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Asperberger's It's spelled Asperger's! Learn to spell! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHH

  2. Roman Numerals? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    40M Vista Licenses in 100 Days
    Hmmm, my Roman Numerals are a bit rusty but 40 * 1000 = 40,000 licenses!

    That's way more than I'd ever expect! Congratulations, Gates! You must be proud that your employees each own a copy!
  3. So what this clearly implies... by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are 170212.766 Vista users for each Microsoft patent being violated by free software.

  4. Re:"beat Mac users" ??? by DJNephilim · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are about to place a queen of spades on top of a king of hearts. Cancel or Allow?

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