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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. Does that include reinstalls? by Linker3000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is that unique, single installs or does the figure include poor little Timmy who has had to reinstall Vista 7 times just to get the damn video drivers to work? /DRTFA //But then that's not the done thing is it!?

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  2. repetition by azenpunk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    let me be the thousandth to say: Are they counting the usual, annual re-install?