Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Mar 2007 22:15 UTC
More than 20 million copies of Windows Vista were sold globally in February 2007, the first month of sales since its widespread consumer release. That is significantly more than the 17 million copies of Windows XP that were sold in the first two months following its release in October 2001, Kevin Kutz, a director in Microsoft's Windows client group, told eWeek in an interview on March 26.
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RE[2]: Colour me skeptical
by cyclops on Tue 27th Mar 2007 01:14
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"Twenty Million"
Novell quoted in there last as 80 Million, although at the current rate of installs that is still only 3 months away from passing Linux. Although I don't think its relevant.
It is spun to be good news, simply becuase people not *choosing* Vista. People are getting Vista by default. Thats the real news. Ballmer is blaming *piracy* for the slow uptake.
RE[3]: Colour me skeptical
by kaiwai on Tue 27th Mar 2007 12:11
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Novell quoted in there last as 80 Million, although at the current rate of installs that is still only 3 months away from passing Linux. Although I don't think its relevant.
The question is how many of the installs are not kept track of, for example, I downloaded SLED and installed it onto 3 machines; I downloaded and installed Fedora Core 6 onto 15 desktop machines - all of these aren't kept track of by statistics.
Ultimately, dollar value and numbers are meaningless; there is no way to accurately measure, especially if one can't easily purchase a non-Windows machine from Dell (you can purchase them in NZ) or one of the big names, and given that there are a large number like me who just can't be bothered going through the stress of trying to get blood out of a stone.
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Twenty million is already have more installs than all Linux distros combined, with plenty of room left over for every BSD variant. And that's just in one month of sales. How does that possibly need to be "spun" to be good news for Microsoft?Edited 2007-03-27 01:07
Lots of noise, but no actual numbers except for the 20 million and no mention where they got that number from. Here's the red flag in the article :
While Kutz declined to break down the numbers by region or even for each of the six Vista editions, he did say that sales were strong across the globe
So basically you just have the word of of a guy who will get fired if he says anything to undermine MS stock price backed up with no verifiable numbers or a plausible breakdown of sales. It might even be true but I couldn't tell from this article - put me squarely in the sceptic camp.
RE[3]: Colour me skeptical
by raver31 on Tue 27th Mar 2007 15:52
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RE[3]: Colour me skeptical
by Almafeta on Tue 27th Mar 2007 21:02
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2007-02-22
There's nobody better at spinning the news to its favour than Microsoft.
Twenty million is already have more installs than all Linux distros combined, with plenty of room left over for every BSD variant. And that's just in one month of sales. How does that possibly need to be "spun" to be good news for Microsoft?
Edited 2007-03-27 01:07