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 cyclops on Thu 17th May 2007 02:51
in reply to "RE[3]: Putting 40 million into perspective."
Member since:2006-03-12
4% in 6 months..
8% in 12 months..
16% in 18 months..
32% in 24 months..
64% in 32 months..
100% in 38 months..
I have never had as much fun as looking at these figures. Growth is linear not exponential. People replace there computers every 5-6 years, and yes it *did* take xp 6 years to get 75% of the desktop market.
XP
84% 2007
83% 2006
73% 2005
65% 2004
growth is a little over 10% a year which is what you expect. Till it hits saturation, and actually adoption slows not *doubles* every year
Edited 2007-05-17 03:11
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2007-05-17
How do you figure..?
4% in 6 months..
8% in 12 months..
16% in 18 months..
32% in 24 months..
64% in 32 months..
100% in 38 months..
Now obviously 100% Vista isn't going to happen, but around 75% by 2010 seems likely. That would be more in-line with how XP performed, because XP had somewhat fewer copies per computer out after 4 months but sure didn't take 13 or even 6 years to get 75% of the OS market. If XP's growth was exponential, Vista's will be too especially if so far Vista is out-doing XP.