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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 Tyr. on Tue 27th Mar 2007 04:06 UTC in reply to "RE: Colour me skeptical"

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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.

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RE[3]: Colour me skeptical

by raver31 on Tue 27th Mar 2007 15:52 in reply to "RE[2]: Colour me skeptical"

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2005-07-06

Apart from myself, who has been beta-testing for years. I do not know anyone who uses Vista. Even people who have bought new PCs since launch and are now using XP.

To me, Vista appears to be the biggest flop in computing history.

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RE[3]: Colour me skeptical

by Almafeta on Tue 27th Mar 2007 21:02 in reply to "RE[2]: Colour me skeptical"

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Lots of noise, but no actual numbers except for the 20 million and no mention where they got that number from.

Well, since they stated that 20 million copies of Vista had sold, I'd have to say they got that number from the number of copies that they had sold.

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