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?

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Nothing is moving, Apple is handing him his ass.

[Odder]

Vista might come on a large fraction of retail computers but those computers are not really selling well. The biggest reason Apple dominates sales of $1000 and up PC sales is because no one is willing to pay that much for Vista.

You can sell TURD with 100% of new pcs

[unity100]

if you forcefully bundled your turd with the new pc, by using laws you have bought in the countries you sell them.

thats how your vista is selling.

Re:upgrade rights, smoke and mirrors

[westbake]

I don't think he's fooling anyone.

Re:People like Vista because it's shiny

[Santana]

One of my reasons to buy a MacBook (which is my first Mac by the way) was precisely for avoiding Vista. I was not willing pay for Vista.

  My co-workers, which are Windows-minded because don't know any better, are thinking of trying a Mac now.

I know me...

[ChaoticCoyote]

...and I bough a copy of Vista to update a multiprocessor Opetron workstation, back a month after Vista came out.

I've also upgraded two recent purchases from Windows Business/Home to Windows Ultimate.

In addition to Vista, I run a few Linux systems (Gentoo, Ubuntu), some XP, and an OS X laptop. So when I say "I'm happy with Vista" is based on experience with the alternatives.

Vista is not crap. Vista, in many ways, is a significant improvement over XP. And all other OSs have their own problems and good points. I think some tech people need to grow up and stop being pedantic fanatics.

Too bad he's so ill informed.

[twitter]

I'm happy he noticed the PC World article, but there are so many other informed opinions out there

. There's hardly an IT Magazine or major vendor that's not part of the Vista Sucks Chorus.

Go ahead and mark the poor guy as one of my sock puppets. Be sure to mark Jim "buy a Mac" Alchin, Louderback, PC World, PC Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Eweek, ITWeek, the Independent, Dvorak, CNet and everyone else. As much as I'd like to say that Slashdot influenced those people with good information, most of them came to their opinions by independent observation.

That is the question.

[westbake]

So to me the 45% of computers sold to business claim sounds really strange anyhow you look at it.

That seems to be the issue this thread is all about. It's amazing how quickly that post was knocked down to -1. Everyone else says Ballmer is full of beans too.

Re:The Slashdot Stepfords

[Zero__Kelvin]

You should have taken my advice ;-)

Re:It's PC Magazine and just about everyone.

[Bratch]

I'd buy Mac OSX if it didn't require that large dongle to run it.