Vista Sales Rate Fell Last Quarter

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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Re:Still outsold all Linuxes combined

[Anonymous Coward]

One wonders, too, just how well Linux would survive an economic downturn. Just fine. It's already survived more than one.

one has to imagine that previously generous developers will descend on each other like wolves, when time comes to make mortgage payments. You seem to be assuming that everyone in the world is as fucking stupid as americans. This is not the case, some of us remember "neither or a borrower nor a lender be", and don't take stupidly large loans from unpleasant people like those running banks.

Re:Nice troll

[owlnation]

married to a girl who extols the virtues of emacs

Married to "a" girl, as opposed to "the" girl? There's more than one?

Re:XP Sales?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, because when the DRM audio subsystem is active, the OS sacrifices network performance to maintain playback rate. Why? Well, fuck knows why. This is microsoft we're talking about. I can't quite believe you don't know about this though, what with it being all over the computing press and your low UID.

Re:Still outsold all Linuxes combined

[tjstork]

I love 'paid Microsoft shill' comments

That's because Linux isn't just an operating system, IT'S A CAUSE... yet another independent thing that was nifty and kinda cool before a bunch of halfwitted politicos aped it and turned it into something else.

No, it's encouraging. M$ is in trouble.

[Erris]

Almost a year after introduction, Vista has less than 7% of the desktop market and sales are slowing. Where's the spin in those facts?

The spin is all coming from Redmond. They have claimed "strong" Vista demand, but Vista has not even done as well as XP and may be the worst selling version of Windows ever. They are talking about "boom times" and partying like it's 1999, but it's just not so. Vista and Microsoft have significant and successful competition. Apple has greater marketshare than Vista. GNU/Linux is just starting it's rise and all the major vendors are taking it seriously. Worse, many of those vendors have taken big losses due to Vista's poor sales and are pissed at the high cost of supporting what little they did sell because it's been full of bugs. Microsoft would like you to forget all of that and think that it's 1998 again and everyone is making money on the lockstep transition to the next version of Windows. Fat chance.

Re:No, it's encouraging. M$ is in trouble.

[dedazo]

Hi twitter. Couldn't post more than two times in your own journal so you had to fall back on the old sockpuppet, eh? Isn't it amazing that you're already at negative karma yet you keep getting modded down?. I didn't think that was even possible.

Your little rants are amusing, as always. I guess there's nothing else for someone like you to do but to just go down babbling about how it's all a big pack of lies and offer up some more salacious dogma, spin and FUD for popular consumption.

Apple has greater marketshare than Vista.

ROFL! I'm sure you were just about to post a source for that. I'd love to see it.