Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report. Standalone unit sales of Vista at U.S. retail stores were down 59.7 percent compared with Windows XP, during each product's first six months on store shelves, according to NPD Group. In terms of revenue, sales are also down, but the drop has been less steep, at 41.5 percent.
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Member since:2006-07-04
Not even close to second according to these stats:
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
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Actually, Vista is *very* close to second, even according to w3counter.com's stats. w3counter.com's stats show Vista at 3.66%, and the second largest share is Windows 2000 at 3.87%. I'd guess Vista will take over second in a month or so.
But note that w3counter.com shows that Latvia, a country with a population of ~2.25 million, makes up 4% of all internet usage (which is, according to w3counter.com, nearly equal to UK's share and larger than the shares of countries such as Canada and France, all of which are anywhere from 15 to 30 times larger than Latvia). In fact, according to w3counter.com, Latvia has the 4th largest web activity of all nations! That in itself is enough to bring w3counter.com into question as an indicator of internet usage of the general population.
w3counter.com's stats are interesting to talk about, but I think marketshare.hitslink.com's stats are more reliable for getting a feel of what's going on in the general population.
Edited 2007-09-13 05:45
Member since:2005-07-06
[/i]"w3counter.com shows that Latvia makes up 4% of all internet usage. That in itself is enough to bring w3counter.com into question as an indicator of internet usage of the general population"[/i]
"This report was generated 09/10/2007 based on the last 34,463,182 unique visits to 5,698 websites."
I know what you meant, however, the sample of the 5.698 sites could have a few hundred very popular Latvian sites for all we know. They could be sampling a Latvian news site, or Googles Latvian portal for all we know. So the countries results will be skewed.
The same goes for OS's. 3.71% OSX use, hmm, is that global or just in the countries sampled ?
Member since:2005-08-18
Why? We don't know how either of them sample their data.
hitslink has Intel Mac's larger than Other. I doubt there are more MacIntel boxes than Linux boxes.
General population of *what*?
Member since:
2005-07-20
Not even close to second according to these stats:
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
Anyway Vista has been disaster from early beta days, I still can't figure out why it was released in the first place. It is still an alpha/beta stage OS with huge number of wrong design decisions and critical bugs to be used for anything seriously.
I have had it installed since betas oon my pare drive and even with all the updates that made it so far into Vista it is still as bad as it was on RTM day.
From what I hear SP1 is on the same track.