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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. vm's by misfit815 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah, he's probably right... if you include all the vm's we run to sandbox stuff...

    J

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    Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. - John 14:6 NLT
  2. The main question by baudilus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are they counting pirated copies?

  3. But is Windows is in top 3 OSs even? by ceeam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think that the average household has more Unix systems running for them than Windows. For example - I know for sure that my DVD player and my ADSL modem have Linux running in them. My TV, phones, etc - frankly no idea. Maybe some Unix too, maybe something else. But I heard that this thing runs them most: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project

    Yeah, desktop is still important but with things like these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC gaining momentum I hope Windows will be further sliding into irrelevancy.