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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Member since:2005-11-21
But just like the people who bring up the point that some of those Vista PC's got wiped and had XP or Linux installed on them, you must deal with the fact that some people will buy the Linux PC because it's cheaper (Windows license fee) and install Windows on it. I'd definitely expect this to be true for people who pirate Windows, get cheap copies/free from work, have MSDN/Technet accounts, or already own a copy of XP/Vista.
All those hater arguements against Windows work both ways.
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I was being sarcastic. My point is that if Microsoft counts those in their sales numbers, everyone gripes about it not being indicative as the true numbers of Windows being sold, or that this is an underhanded way of inflating numbers.
When Linux numbers start climbing due to the same practices (for example, Dell shipping PC's preloaded w/ Linux) those same people will start heralding the climb of Linux license sales. I can absolutely guarantee this will happen.
For one thing, you are missing the point that this will only happen because people will realise they have a choice of Windows or Linux, and will be making it in favour of Linux. Historically that hasn't been the case for computers preloaded with Windows, since even if you know about alternatives you usually had to jump through hoops to get them installed, assuming you were happy picking an OS made by a company that was bound to be (successfully) targetted for liquidation by Microsoft.
For another, in my mind the gripes of everyone I've heard who has used Vista are much more indicative than some sales numbers, especially since I'm sure a lot of those sales are OEM sales which result in unbought, unused, or returned copies of Vista lying around either in the warehouse or the home. Dell wouldn't be bowing to pressure to reintroduce XP if that weren't the case.