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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."

4 of 579 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hmm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When will an OS send a lethal shock through the keyboard of people that can't tell ITS from IT'S?

  2. Re:Hmm.. by thetable123 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I fail to see you complaint. FTW: its = possessive / it's = contraction of it is.

  3. Re:Hmm.. by spykemail · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, maybe instead of suing poor American college students and extraditing Australians for copyright infringement the powers that be should be concentrating on the massive state sponsored piracy in China.

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  4. Re:Hmm.. by vocaro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Correction:

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

    Correction:

    In other news... China sells 40 million of its OWN copy.