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Microsoft Claims a Billion Windows Installs by End of 2008

Posted by Zonk on from the one-beeellion dept.

eldavojohn writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claimed yesterday that there will be a billion machines running Windows within a year. 'The install base of Windows computers this coming 12 months will reach 1 billion. If you stop and just think about that, parse that for a second, by the end of our fiscal year '08, there will be more PCs running Windows in the world than there are automobiles, which is at least to me kind of a mind-numbing concept.'"

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  1. Moderators! by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Why is this drivel moderated as informative? Solely because it's nicely written, has no grammar mistakes, and sounds good?

    a) Windows XP remote desktop is easier to deal with than X remoting. Huh? What have you been smoking? May I have some of it? Next, you'll be saying that it's easier to transmit motion pictures using an etch-a-sketch than using a camera.