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Windows XP Still Outselling Windows Vista

Posted by timothy on from the in-this-house-they're-tied-at-zero dept.

nandemoari writes with an excerpt from an InfoPackets article that says "While Microsoft excitedly tries to sway public opinion by touting that Windows Vista License sales top 180 Million units, Hewlett-Packard (HP) was busy smacking Microsoft down — reportedly shipping PCs with a Vista Business license but with Windows XP pre-loaded in the majority of business computers sold since the June 30 Windows XP execution date established by Microsoft — casting a lot of doubt over how many copies of Vista have actually been sold."

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  1. Stop paying MS for bad software... by xzvf · · Score: 5, Informative

    OK, I'm a zealot, but if you mostly use a computer to browse the web and get email and write an occasional document buy a Linux computer.

  2. More statistics by Lonewolf666 · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the latest Valve survey (Windows only):

    Windows XP ------------- 80.77 %
    Windows Vista --------- 15.08 %
    Windows Vista 64 bit - 2.68 %
    Windows 2003 64 bit - 0.70 %
    Windows 2000 ---------- 0.61 %
    Other -------------------- 0.15 %

    So even in Windows Gamer Country, Vista has reached only 15% market share...

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    C - the footgun of programming languages
  3. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    LOL. Nasty updates? I run Debian and it's easier to update Debian than it is any Windows machine I've ever run, as well as having more options to do so. I can update via a gui with auto-notification when updates are available, or I can run the very difficult to understand two commands: "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get upgrade" and all security patches are downloaded and installed, without rebooting.

    If I want to switch to the next version of Debian it's simply "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get dist-upgrade". The same functionality is available through the gui too.

    Now just tell my how "nasty" it is to upgrade a Linux system. I've upgraded a desktop of mine from starting with Woody, to Sarge, to Etch, to Sid and never had to do a reformat.

    Now just go ahead and tell me one more time about how Windows has it all over Linux in doing updates and user-friendliness. You couldn't update directly from 98 to 2000 to XP to Vista if your life depended on it, let alone have it run smoothly and without any problems after the updates.

    The depth of ignorance in this place about Linux simply amazes me at times. Geeks shouldn't ought to be that ignorant about technological issues.