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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RE[4]: Putting 40 million into perspective.
by dagw on Thu 17th May 2007 15:12
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RE[4]: Putting 40 million into perspective.
by tomcat on Fri 18th May 2007 04:21
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I didn't realize that that Vista was *free* to OEM's. This is a revelation to me, and with those adware supported programs they must be cheaper.
I never claimed it was free. What I said was that nobody pays retail. OEMs certainly don't -- and neither do the people that buy their PCs, either.
I wonder why companies like Acer are complaining that Vista Home is so crippled nobody wants is. Especially as its *free*
Keep flogging that strawman.
Could you show me how to get my *free* copy of Vista
See above. And consider taking a fundamental course in logic.
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2006-03-12
"Fact: The vast majority of people obtain their operating system preinstalled on a new PC.
Which means that, contrary to your assertion, there are very few people actually paying retail prices for Vista."
I didn't realize that that Vista was *free* to OEM's. This is a revelation to me, and with those adware supported programs they must be cheaper.
I wonder why companies like Acer are complaining that Vista Home is so crippled nobody wants is. Especially as its *free*
Could you show me how to get my *free* copy of Vista