40M Vista Licenses in 100 Days

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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another way to fight

[cinnamon colbert]

u got that right
I have posted before that Open source fighting for the desktop is playing their game, by their rules, which is a sure recipe for failure.

since linux doesn't have drivers, it is essentially dead on the desktop. Since people are locked to office, open /office linux is not a plus.

what open source clearly needs to do is find a new reason to use the computer, patent it, then write code; 1% of people buy a computer cause they hate ms or somehting, 99% buy it to do something.
100% of hte success of fire fox is that it does soemthing
100% of the failure of linux is that it doesnt do anytthing (thats sort of an intelligence test, if you argue that linux does do something, you fail)

Re:Roman Numerals?

[Turcotte]

You are assuming its Roman numberals. Its not. Its engineering notation. M (Mega) = 10^6 k (kilo) = 10^3 m (milli) = 10^-3 etc... If you get a 512Mb memory key you don't say it can hold 512,000 bytes do you?