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[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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2006-03-12
"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.