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Ballmer Says Vista Selling Really Well
An anonymous reader writes "Steve Ballmer is in no way disappointed with Windows Vista. It is selling 'incredibly well,' he told a press conference in Herzeliya, Israel today. 'Vista sells on almost 100 per cent of all the new consumer PCs around the world,' the Microsoft CEO proclaimed. He added that the operating system was also selling on '45 percent of all of new business PCs.' Which is enlightening, since business users are about the only buyers of new PCs that get a choice." Anyone know anybody who bought Vista except as bundled with hardware?
If it sold more than zero copies, that qualifies as "incredibly well" for me too.
If by bought you mean "downloaded from The Pirate Bay", then yes.
All the computers I've bought and came with Vista, five of them so far, are running Windows XP. A polished, gold painted turd is still a turd.
I don't.
Don't know anybody, or don't regret it?
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Seriously - Vista Media Center is very well done. Couple it with the excellent HDHomerun () and you will have a pretty awesome Hi-Def DVR setup. And as to the question posed, yes, I *purchased* a copy of Vista Home Premium for my son's machine. He likes it a lot. Incidentally, he was upgraded from Win2K, not XP, so there were quite a few new features for him to explore/try.
The more you regulate a company, the worse its products become.
This is Slashdot. The answer should be obvious. No need to rub it in.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
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All of them have their $4,000 laptops and Media Centers, but Apple sells twice as many as them combined. Tell me another good joke about vendors not being interested in high margin business and I'll tell you a good joke about a $400 OS and a $450 Office suite. Steve Ballmer is blowing smoke from his crack pipe.
A polished, gold painted turd is still a turd.
You'll be stuck in engineering forever. With that attitude, you'll never make it into marketing.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Depends on what you're interested in. What's your priority, doing some useful work or making lots of money easily?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The difference being that Iraq could hypothetically do well some day. Vista on the other hand ...
Vista is not dead, wants to go for a walk.
I dont read
Who would target Linux for their attacks when it has suc a small market share. Any OS has security issues and bugs that need to be fixed, this is pretty easy to see in the recent Debian SSL entropy issue, there are a lot of virus and attacks for Windows because there are a lot of Windows users, is just that.
Is kind of depressing to see your comment modded as insightful, I thought geeks used logic instead of fanboyism.
Sigs are for morons... Wait a minute...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Friday (UNN) - Russian hackers have accepted EUR800,000 in donations from customers of Nordea, Sweden's largest bank, after a sophisticated "phishing" campaign recruited customers into downloading a Trojan horse program that recorded their account login details.
The Russians had looked up the definition of "hacker" in the Jargon File and been inspired to leverage the creative power of open source Free Software. The first campaign took place in August 2006 and was detected a month later, having affected around 250 Nordea customers.
The emails claimed to be from the Nordea Open Trojan Foundation, telling recipients to install an anti-spam and donation tool. Their computers were then infected by the Trojan HaxDoor.RMS.w32, which installs itself in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 and sends your passwords to its creators, but only after you have read through and accepted the GNU General Public License and checked the README file for known problems. The email also included full source code.
Swedish police traced the attacks to Russia by looking at the contact details, including address and phone number, included in the README. They have filed over 100 bugs on the creators' SourceForge project and joined the mailing lists on the grass-roots marketing and publicity site SpreadHaxDoor.com.
A Nordea spokesman said the attacks have "quietened down" after the initial influx last Autumn. "We are constantly looking at the security of our online banking and many different measures are taken. We are updating our systems behind the scenes. Many already run on enterprise Linux distributions, but we will be moving desktops to Linux as well for more efficient funds transfer with less reverse engineering required, and may recommend that our customers do the same."
The Trojan only affects computers running Windows. "For unsupported platforms, we have an 'honor system' which gives our details so you can send some money in," said a spokesman for the hacker group. "We hope this will help and encourage contributors interested in porting the Trojan to other operating environments."
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