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Vista Sales Rate Fell Last Quarter

Posted by kdawson on from the peaked-too-early dept.

Microsoft is not directly mentioning Vista demand while they brag about how much money they made last quarter, because sales fell. "[Microsoft] shipped approximately 28 million copies of Vista in the latest quarter ended September, or 9.3 million copies per month. Though the Windows developer pointed to 27 percent growth in business licenses and noted that many home users were buying the more lucrative Vista Home Premium or Ultimate editions, the rate represents a decline from the 10 million per month reported early in summer."

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  1. Also worth noting by thanksforthecrabs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ubuntu sales remained flat...

  2. Re:Still outsold all Linuxes combined by LingNoi · · Score: 4, Funny

    All this political in-fighting between the XP and Vista communities just proves that Windows is not ready for desktop.

  3. Re:What about XP sales? by jcr · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a perfectly fine Windows OS. It's better than XP in every way I can think of.

    If that's not damning with faint praise, I don't know what is.

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  4. Re:XP Sales? by callmetheraven · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you had it right the first time.

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    You can have my SIG when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
  5. Re:No Joke. Re:You got to be kidding me.. by Spacezilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://slashdot.org/~twitter/

    Eek, modded down so many times! And you almost have a 5 digit user id, so you must have been doing this for a very long time! Well, you're certainly persistent! Have you considered a career in Jehovah's Witnesses? They keep coming to my house and I can't seem to get them to give up. I think you and they may have a lot in common, with the obvious exception that you're slightly more fanatic about your beliefs. :)