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I hope your post was sarcasm.

I hope that was sarcasm...I really do. The numbers have no context...none at all. How many were sold as stand-alone? How many were prepackaged?

Does it seriously matter? It seems pretty clear to me -- Windows Vista has sold 40 million licenses. Other evidence supports this, for example, Microsoft posted a 65% rise in quarterly profit last quarter, as compared to the same quarter last year. Call me crazy, but that probably had to do with the fact that they launched Office 2007 and Windows Vista within that timeframe. Just maybe. Vista is already 3% of the world's OS market share.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/26/technology/microsoft.reut/index.htm
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

Gartner suggests that 4.2% of all business PC's will be running Windows Vista by the year's end. This is no surprise, Microsoft and other financial/market analysts predicted that Windows Vista would trump Windows XP in adoption rate.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199400133
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061128-8307.html

It also does not take into account the vast numbers who have claimed to have reverted back to XP (or switched entirely to Linux).

The "vast" numbers that you're talking about don't seem to be showing up when you need them to. Operating system usage trends show that Windows XP usage is actually slipping -- as well it should be, since Vista is Windows XP... but better. There are few reasons for anyone to opt for XP ahead of Vista -- it's as simple as that.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5

If 40 million copies were sold, they were to idiots who don't know any better.

I'd have to say that the Vista naysayers are the idiots. I'm running Windows Vista on my notebook with no problems. All of my old software works, and all of my hardware works. Vista isn't even much of a resource hog, because I recall myself testing a copy of Windows Vista Build 5342 on a machine with a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 and 512 MB of RAM with a Radeon 9600 XT. Despite the Linux fanboys cries of Aero overhead, it did Flip3D, Alt+Tab, and the taskbar previews even with full motion video. Intel's GMA950 integrated graphics processor packs enough punch to run Aero fully well.

40 million copies have been sold to people who don't arbitrarily hate Microsoft because they're Microsoft. Grow up and stop being a tool.

Posted by: A_Pickle   Posted on: 05/15/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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