Vista Shipped On 39% of PCs In 2007

Stony Stevenson writes "Vista is proving far less popular than XP did with new PC buyers during the earlier OS's first year on the market. This conclusion follows from statements by Bill Gates at this week's Consumer Electronics Show. Gates boasted that Microsoft has sold more than 100 million copies of Windows Vista since the OS launched last January. Based on Gates's statement, Windows Vista was aboard just 39% of the PC's that shipped in 2007. And Vista, in terms of units shipped, only outperformed first-year sales of XP by 10%, according to Gates's numbers, while PC shipments have doubled in the years since XP's release."

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I call bull

[grilled-cheese]

I call bull. Those numbers are worthless since most consumers didn't have a choice in getting Vista with their new machines. I think a more important fact is that this is the first version of Windows where users have demanded either an alternative or just to keep the previous version. If they really want metrics, make all the running copies of vista for 3 months phone home and then count how many are still in use. I don't think my debian lappy will be responding to them.

Re:the missing links

[TechForensics]

4. Chairs spotted on Earth orbit.

This got a belly laugh out of me. I wish I had mod points.