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Vista Shipped On 39% of PCs In 2007

Posted by kdawson on from the another-massive-success-could-sink-the-company dept.

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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  1. Re:What about Win Xp... by Molochi · · Score: 0, Troll

    In my opinion the non-commission sales people are even worse. The only incentive they have to help you, is if they could win the monthly prize for performing the most upsells of overpriced crap or if the store manager is standing there staring at them.

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