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Vista Share Drops for the First Time In Two Years
adeelarshad82 writes "Windows Vista lost market share last month for the first time in almost two years, a sign that users are already abandoning the oft-ridiculed operating system in favor of the new Windows 7. According to Web metrics firm Net Applications, Vista dropped 0.2 percentage points during September to end the month at an 18.6% slice of the operating system pie. Windows 7, meanwhile, gained 0.3 percentage points, its biggest one-month gain since Microsoft began handing out the new OS to the public in January 2009. Windows 7 powered an estimated 1.5% of all computers that connected to the Internet last month, also a record."
Obviously, our AC friend here is actually a paid advertiser working for microsoft. Microsoft knows that if they troll Slashdot enough with reverse-astroturfers, they will induce other posters to reply in defense of the corporation and thus boost sales.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
unfortunately it was on msdnaa for a month and was then withdrawm
Are you sure it wasn't just because it got modded flamebait? Oh, MSDNAA...never mind.
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Let us not forget Windows Bob.
It even became a joke at MS. Check out Bill Gates Last Day Video @~5:40 Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie crack on BillG saying that they have to give credit where credit is due; Microsoft Bob was all Bill's idea.
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
I really have no clue what you're on about. I tested the beta and RC for free and because I did so I was able to purchase the upgrade for my two windows vista machines for around $50 per licensed copy.
Not only did Microsoft NOT sell the beta (it was a free download, though they may have charged to ship it on DVD(?)), but they also gave the public who tested it a huge discount on the upgrade.
Get your facts straight.
Power does not corrupt - power attracts the corrupt.