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Microsoft Sees Stronger XP Sales in FY08
Rude Awakening wrote with a PC World article, saying that XP sales will actually be higher next year than they were in 2007. Despite Vista's release, Microsoft admitted this week that it expects the previous version of its operating system to make up a larger percentage of its OS sales in 2008. "According to Liddell, Microsoft will generate the same revenue, more or less, under the new Vista vs. XP numbers, although there might be some slight differences because Vista sales have tended to involve more of the higher-priced versions, dubbed premium by the company, than has XP. The financial forecast didn't spell out that directly, however. The only clue was a US$120 million difference in what Microsoft pegged as the 'undelivered elements' it assigned to unearned income for the coming year."
"XP is continuing its huge sales performance with even better statisitcs, even though we're thinking about stopping it"
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"Vista is absolutely crap and their new operating system isn't making sales"
Guys, XP sales != Vista lack of sales
Three years from now I'll still be using Solaris,in a $18000 workstation thank you very much.
Let me help you with that a bit. This will take care of the spelling but I guess that isn't your issue with schmucks...
"You must be new here. These schmucks never read the articles, they just feed off each other with poor grammar."
Ok. Now that we have all those pesky letters in the correct order let's just tidy up the punctuation...
The comma just isn't correct. We could go this way...
"You must be new here. These schmucks never read the articles; they just feed off each other with poor grammar."
You could make the argument that using a semicolon is correct but I think most of us would agree that it isn't really what you would really want. (unless you are a "smuck" and you don't read the "articals"...)
I really think this is what you were shooting for...
"You must be new here. These schmucks never read the articles. They just feed off each other with poor grammar."
Jeeze... You must harbor a really odd Freudian self-loathing to slip that out.
You fail at long-term memory, zealot. It took almost four years for XP to surpass the Windows 2000 + Windows 98 market share after it was released in 2001. It's entirely possible that situation won't play out the same way with Vista ...
I'm aware of XP's dismal performance. I'm also aware of Vista's worse performance and can spot a trend. Wall Street was very forgiving with XP for six years and are out of patience. Vista is the end of the line for M$.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.