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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. Damn... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The world will then have 1 billion unhappy computer users.

    1. Re:Damn... by Lumpy · · Score: 0, Troll

      Worse than that. Cince windows Installs are the only place where zombie machines are infected so that the spam and ddos attacks and other net problems come from, that simply means that the net will become more and more useless.

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  2. Should hit $1 by the end of the year too! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SPZI.PK&t=5d/

  3. Poor, poor FOSSies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    And that, dear FOSSies, is the definitive proof that Lunix is dead.

    Nobody wants Lunix for free, nobody wants Lunix if the alternative is paying for (or even stealing!!) Windows... so MS is clearly giving the people what they want.

    If teh Lunix had a market share which was over the statistical margin of error, perhaps more than double digits, then perhaps it would look competitive. But... such is not the case.

    Game Over.

    1. Re:Poor, poor FOSSies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Actually, the reason why Microsoft is showing such an inflated number of installs is people are buying OEM Vista machines, getting fed the fuck up with the OS, and going out and buying a copy of XP, so MS can double-dip their figures.

      Do you have numbers to back you up? Because that just sounds like anti-MS FUD speculation.

      1 billion installs isn't that much, especially considering that they're probably including numbers from Windows 386 or DOS forward. It just means that some random guy reinstalled so many times that they're counting 1 billion installs.

      1 billion installs is quite a bit- far more than teh Lunix can brag. And again... do you have any of those "fact" things laying around, or can we just conclude you are spewing yet more of your FUD?

      Let me know how reality tastes, zealot. I'm guessing your chunk of it is very bitter.
  4. A Billion Windows by thethibs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hello? A little reading comprehension problem here?

    Microsoft revenue in the last fiscal year: $15 Billion.

    Vista licensing revenue in its first fiscal year: $2 Billion.

    Linux-derived software licensing revenue throughout all of time: Hmmm.

    Does anyone actually think that linux running on PDAs and TV remotes is at all relevant?

    What is relevant is that MS is doing a whole lot of things right. And MS shareholders are getting rich and powerful and get the most desirable women.

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  5. Re:Ah, don't underestimate MS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want an easy to use graphics editor (Gimp isn't cutting it).
    I'd suggest Tuxpaint to you and your like.