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Q1 2006, 1.7 million units sold world wide
Q2 2006, 1.8 million units sold world wide
Q3 2006, 1.75 million units sold world wide.
For those lacking basic math skills, thats 5.25 million, which is a far cry from 3.4 million. Mind you this doesn't include Q3 of 2006.
Adding to those numbers Q4 of 2005 brings that total rather close to 7.0 Million units.
Apple releases an incremental update to OS X 10.2 to 10.3 and charge you for it ($129.00), and when they release a MASSIVE update in September, not a peep of complaints...
People said the same thing about the first generation of Windows, and then the Xbox...
Now Windows is the dominant OS in both the desktop and server market.
The first Xbox was able to even displace the mighty Nintendo in the console market, and the 360 is doing gangbusters.
When will people learn to NEVER count Microsoft out of anything they get into. They may make a few mistakes along the way, but when they want to be in a market, they eventually succeed.
People also seem to forget how upgradable the OS and firmware is on the Zune as well... how soon before you CAN browse and wirelessly synch?
Dell doesn't need a booth. They do plenty of sales day in, day out via their web site with no issues at all. In two weeks Dell sells in systems (not including servers) what Apple does in 12 months.
Not to mention, Trend has NO issues with being able to disable the Windows Firewall, Windows Defender or anything else. Not to mention it hooks into Security Center with no issues at all. Works perfectly fine. Now Symantec is claiming it CANNOT do all these things, why is it in a Beta that Trend has no issues with all of the above.
Maybe if Symantec got some real programmers that could read Vista's API and basic documentation, which is available for FREE, they wouldn't be complaining so much.
Second, last I checked Vista was not complete. If people even bothered to read the release notes for RC1 you would see Microsoft specifically mentions that the power savings functionality is not yet complete.
Third, as was mentioned multiple times by the reviewer, Apple has not released drivers for Vista yet. Since when is this Microsoft's fault?
1.) I have over 12,500 songs in my collection. All WMA. All play fine on my WMA playback devices, of which I have four.
2.) I know well what my rights are. They are listed right in the EULA when I installed the various Music Stores. They ARE NOT MY SONGS. They belong to the artist or the record label, right or wrong.
3.) Define special...
Making a backup of a song? I have most on three or four devices inlcuding my PC. Not to mention the fact that if I do lose the song, I simply go and download it again, for free, as I already paid the fee to download the right to use said song.
Why would I want to watch a movie on a handheld device? Thats why I own a large screen TV and DVD player. No need to be stuck to a tiny device with no surround sound, or having to squint to see anything.
It seems to me the only people that have problems with DRM are the ones that think everything should be free and the ones who do regularly steal music and software.
Just because its not usable to YOU, doesn't mean its not usable to the rest of us.
Some of us don't have this fixation on the thought that software and music should be free. Regardless of what you think, its currently not, right or wrong. Piracy of software and music is still piracy and still illegal.
FairUse4WM is going to be rightly bitch slapped by Microsoft.
Enough said.
Imagine the flack if Microsoft made commericals like this...
But of course its OK for Apple to do so, because they are sooooo special... like short bus special.
What companies? Where? I'm not talking one or two user mom & pop shops, I'm talking big companies. Every time we read about a supposed mass migration to linux, it's typically NOT the desktop, and if it is on the desktop, a few months later we read that the migration to linux on the desktop has been pushed off.
I would love to see one shred of any evidence that Microsoft is loosing ground int eh desktop OS category. If anything it has stayed the same. Apple still controls a whole 2.5% of the desktop market, linux takes 2.0% and then a small frindge of others out there around 1%. The rest is firmly under the control of Microsoft.
If you are talking server side, the past five years, Microsoft's market share has grown in the server market to the expense of both Novell and some Unix...
People also seem to easily forget that Vista has FULL and NATIVE support for OpenGL... and it's still up to the hardware OEMs to provide OpenGL drivers, else Vista falls back and supports DirectX doing OpenGL like previous versions of Windows.
People like you seem to forget that damn near 99% of the gaming market is Windows only with a very small subset for the MacOS... its been said, by developers, repeatedly, that developing a SKU for Linux is a total waste of time and money. Mostly due to the fact that most Linux folks think everything should be free (as in beer) and have no problems making copies for others (witness Quake when it was released as a Linux SKU and it's tracking iD did of bootleg copies).
You haven't used DirectX then have you? Sure Direct3D is handy, very handy, but so is, as was stated, DirectPlay and DirectSound.
Show me how either is minor, and covered by other API's that are as easy to use...
Developers DON'T want portable. For every 100 Windows games that get sold, maybe 3 or 4 other platforms get sold. Why waste the time. That is EXACTLY what most developers are saying.
My original comment still stands, don't blame Microsoft for administrative short comings.
We don't have issues with our Windows XP based laptops and desktops or Windows Server 2003 based servers. With over 10000 workstations and 750 servers, its no problem at all...
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If the anti-Microsoft newspaper ad was a diversion for a week from this bomb.
Q1 2006, 1.7 million units sold world wide
Q2 2006, 1.8 million units sold world wide
Q3 2006, 1.75 million units sold world wide.
For those lacking basic math skills, thats 5.25 million, which is a far cry from 3.4 million. Mind you this doesn't include Q3 of 2006.
Adding to those numbers Q4 of 2005 brings that total rather close to 7.0 Million units.
People have been saying Microsoft and Windows * have been irrelevant every time there is a major Windows update.
And yet they keep on being relevant.
So, at least Microsoft is fixing them.
Microsoft has bugs, people complain.
Microsoft fixes the bugs, people complain.
Apple releases an incremental update to OS X 10.2 to 10.3 and charge you for it ($129.00), and when they release a MASSIVE update in September, not a peep of complaints...
People said the same thing about the first generation of Windows, and then the Xbox...
Now Windows is the dominant OS in both the desktop and server market.
The first Xbox was able to even displace the mighty Nintendo in the console market, and the 360 is doing gangbusters.
When will people learn to NEVER count Microsoft out of anything they get into. They may make a few mistakes along the way, but when they want to be in a market, they eventually succeed.
People also seem to forget how upgradable the OS and firmware is on the Zune as well... how soon before you CAN browse and wirelessly synch?
Google's... Zeigiest is cool.
Dell doesn't need a booth. They do plenty of sales day in, day out via their web site with no issues at all. In two weeks Dell sells in systems (not including servers) what Apple does in 12 months.
Agreed.
Not to mention, Trend has NO issues with being able to disable the Windows Firewall, Windows Defender or anything else. Not to mention it hooks into Security Center with no issues at all. Works perfectly fine. Now Symantec is claiming it CANNOT do all these things, why is it in a Beta that Trend has no issues with all of the above.
Maybe if Symantec got some real programmers that could read Vista's API and basic documentation, which is available for FREE, they wouldn't be complaining so much.
Actually you mean 96% of the world. Last count put MacOS around 4%
Microsoft's performance with multicore systems is quite good with Windows Server 2003 and up. I don't know why you say it "isn't there".
When running apps suchs as SQL and Exchange moving from dual to quad systems can net improvements close to 100% depending on the query sizes.
Its not really till you make the move from 8 way systems and up that you see a much more marked decrease in the increase.
Last I checked most of the hip-hop/rap/gangsta' crap on MTV doesn't even USE guitars!
Yeah but if you remember correctly Microsoft DID add the ability for Microsoft Office 2007 to save in native PDF format.
Adobe tossed a fit, Microsoft removed the feature.
Now Adobe is whining again.
Funny how people quickly forget it.
They could always do what Apple did with OS X.
Promise all these features in OS X, then not deliver till you buy 10.0, 10.2 and finally 10.3...
First, why is this even considered news?
Second, last I checked Vista was not complete. If people even bothered to read the release notes for RC1 you would see Microsoft specifically mentions that the power savings functionality is not yet complete.
Third, as was mentioned multiple times by the reviewer, Apple has not released drivers for Vista yet. Since when is this Microsoft's fault?
1.) I have over 12,500 songs in my collection. All WMA. All play fine on my WMA playback devices, of which I have four.
2.) I know well what my rights are. They are listed right in the EULA when I installed the various Music Stores. They ARE NOT MY SONGS. They belong to the artist or the record label, right or wrong.
3.) Define special...
Making a backup of a song? I have most on three or four devices inlcuding my PC. Not to mention the fact that if I do lose the song, I simply go and download it again, for free, as I already paid the fee to download the right to use said song.
Why would I want to watch a movie on a handheld device? Thats why I own a large screen TV and DVD player. No need to be stuck to a tiny device with no surround sound, or having to squint to see anything.
It seems to me the only people that have problems with DRM are the ones that think everything should be free and the ones who do regularly steal music and software.
Just because its not usable to YOU, doesn't mean its not usable to the rest of us.
Some of us don't have this fixation on the thought that software and music should be free. Regardless of what you think, its currently not, right or wrong. Piracy of software and music is still piracy and still illegal.
FairUse4WM is going to be rightly bitch slapped by Microsoft.
Enough said. Imagine the flack if Microsoft made commericals like this... But of course its OK for Apple to do so, because they are sooooo special... like short bus special.
Most of them do have free counterparts, and yet most of the world doesn't touch em.
What companies? Where? I'm not talking one or two user mom & pop shops, I'm talking big companies. Every time we read about a supposed mass migration to linux, it's typically NOT the desktop, and if it is on the desktop, a few months later we read that the migration to linux on the desktop has been pushed off.
I would love to see one shred of any evidence that Microsoft is loosing ground int eh desktop OS category. If anything it has stayed the same. Apple still controls a whole 2.5% of the desktop market, linux takes 2.0% and then a small frindge of others out there around 1%. The rest is firmly under the control of Microsoft.
If you are talking server side, the past five years, Microsoft's market share has grown in the server market to the expense of both Novell and some Unix...
People also seem to easily forget that Vista has FULL and NATIVE support for OpenGL... and it's still up to the hardware OEMs to provide OpenGL drivers, else Vista falls back and supports DirectX doing OpenGL like previous versions of Windows.
People like you seem to forget that damn near 99% of the gaming market is Windows only with a very small subset for the MacOS... its been said, by developers, repeatedly, that developing a SKU for Linux is a total waste of time and money. Mostly due to the fact that most Linux folks think everything should be free (as in beer) and have no problems making copies for others (witness Quake when it was released as a Linux SKU and it's tracking iD did of bootleg copies).
You haven't used DirectX then have you? Sure Direct3D is handy, very handy, but so is, as was stated, DirectPlay and DirectSound.
Show me how either is minor, and covered by other API's that are as easy to use...
Developers DON'T want portable. For every 100 Windows games that get sold, maybe 3 or 4 other platforms get sold. Why waste the time. That is EXACTLY what most developers are saying.
This sounds kinda just like the Linux community...
Maybe if you are blind, a bit dumb and not so intelligent.
My original comment still stands, don't blame Microsoft for administrative short comings.
We don't have issues with our Windows XP based laptops and desktops or Windows Server 2003 based servers. With over 10000 workstations and 750 servers, its no problem at all...
Or an Apple laptop:
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Yes to both questions.