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Vista's 40 Million License Sales In Context
Overly Critical Guy writes "Microsoft's figure of 40 million Vista OEM licenses sold has less impact when weighed against the expanded size of the PC market, according to IDC numbers. The myriad of factors involved in determining success in the market makes Microsoft's constant comparisons to Windows XP less reliable as a growth indicator — particularly with Microsoft refusing to reveal the number of actual activated Vista licenses. 'HP reported year-over-year PC sales growth of about 24 percent, or about twice worldwide PC sales growth. Whatever HP is doing right, it's more than just Vista ... If Microsoft wasn't so hung up on XP comparisons as the benchmark, it could really demonstrate that Vista sales are increasing. The first 20 million figure really represented four months of sales, and that could have been positive data because Microsoft protected its customers' holiday investments. For free! Instead of making that point, Microsoft got carried away with making comparisons back to XP.'"
Time to say Hasta La Vista, Baby.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I'm with you, dude. This is beating off a dead horse.
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I have one thing to say for Microsoft selling 40 million vista licences in a week:
Holly crap!
Talk about niche pr0n. Horses are common enough, but dead ones? Whew, my world just got a little bigger.
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Clearly you have uncanny vision and a knack for running large companies few men could match.
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So that makes your post "what someone says about what someone says about what MS says about Vista sales", which makes my post "what someone says about what someone says about what someone says about what MS says about Vista sales"...
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
But I feel no need whatsoever to destroy microsoft.
WTF? This is Slashdot DAMNIT!
Wow! Does Holly do that on demand? She could have a pretty lucrative film career...
This guy's the limit!
The digg.com fugees must have came here too
Yeah? Well what Linux does is worse! Dell didn't get a discount, they had to pay the street price for Ubuntu
for every machine they sold, regardless of whether it got installed or not!