Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th May 2007 22:55 UTC
Nearly 40 million copies of Windows Vista have been sold in the first 100 days following its release, more than twice the sales of Windows XP over the same time period, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in his opening keynote here at the 15th annual WinHEC. "We have been amazed by the response to Vista and what has happened in the last 100 days. So, in the first five weeks of shipping Vista, we have matched the installed base of any other operating system provider," Gates told several hundred attendees in an address entitled 'Platform Innovations for Today and Tomorrow'. In addition, Microsoft said that the follow-on to its Windows Server 2008 operating system will be an interim release due to arrive in 2009.
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2006-06-01
These figures are for OEM license sales, not actual copies of Vista sold to consumers. Vista is selling 60% less in retail than XP did. Vista is already a sales flop which is why Microsoft won't reveal license activation figures that would put the matter to rest immediately and reveal the real userbase for Vista.