40M Vista Licenses in 100 Days 579
Gary writes "In the first 100 days since its launch in Jan 30 Windows Vista has sold an astounding 40 million licenses. Bill Gates gives the credit to accelerating consumer shift to digital lifestyles which has made it the fastest selling operating system in history. Surprisingly the more expensive premium editions accounted for 78 percent of Vista sales. With around 400,000 licenses a day new Vista users will take 8 weeks to beat Mac users, 4 days to exceed Mac sales and 3 days to exceed Linux desktop users."
Hmm.. (Score:5, Funny)
Roman Numerals? (Score:5, Funny)
That's way more than I'd ever expect! Congratulations, Gates! You must be proud that your employees each own a copy!
Greetings (Score:2, Funny)
So what this clearly implies... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Waiting for it... (Score:3, Funny)
(1) I think MS was counting copies of XP in this count. People just ASSUMED OSs sold equalled Vista.
(2) Microsoft was actually hacked to change the number.
(3) This was actually the sales dollars, not the number of licenses sold!
(4) That's horse crap, my grandmother could sell a billion copies of Vista with her eyes closed, and she runs LINUX!!! OMG I PWNED YOU!!11!
Re:Roman Numerals? (Score:3, Funny)
"beat Mac users" ??? (Score:5, Funny)
In other other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm confused... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Roman Numerals? (Score:2, Funny)
40M = 1000 - 40 = 960 licenses.
Re:Hmm.. (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently, they sell even more licenses than Debian, Gentoo and Ubuntu together. Wohoo! Amazing.
Maybe it's just the longest overdue OS release ever. "...4 days to exceed Mac sales and 3 days to exceed Linux desktop users", more like 6 years and 4 or 3 days.
Re:I'm confused... (Score:4, Funny)
(I stopped believing in spoons long ago)
Re:Hmm.. (Score:1, Funny)
Sadly, Microsoft forgot to mention (Score:1, Funny)
Developers
Developers
Developers
Developers.
MS Marketing spin at it again (Score:4, Funny)
Accept or Deny?
Re:Where did they get these numbers? (Score:1, Funny)
1. Announce that Linux uses 200+ of your patents. (Makes no difference if it's true or not.)
2. Then count all Linux users as Vista users! (Makes no difference if it's valid or not.)
3. Send PR blurb to press you advertise heavily in.
Couldn't be easier.
Re:Hmm.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Hmm.. (Score:5, Funny)
Correction:
In other news... China sells 40 million of it's OWN copy.
Re:Hmm.. (Score:2, Funny)
He's doing it wrong because he's coming back.
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> doubt, just post it on
> grammar-nazis to nit-pick it to death. It's great to have a community
> of Asperberger's victims at my disposal.
>
That would be "If I have any doubt, *I* just post it on
100 anal-retentive, pedantic grammar-nazis to nit-pick it to death." Unless
you really mean to offer other people the advice of posting things to
in case *you* have any doubt, which would be a bit strange.
Re:Hmm.. (Score:5, Funny)
It's pronounced "ass burger," isn't it?
Here, take this: (Score:5, Funny)
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It's some whitespace you can use in your next post. No, don't thank me, I've got plenty.
Re:Typical Microsoft stretch marketing (Score:3, Funny)
You realize that if the numbers cited in the editorial piece are incorrect, that you can provide the correct ones?
Re:"beat Mac users" ??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmm.. (Score:2, Funny)
Counting actual installations gives a different number though.
Re:Hmm.. (Score:4, Funny)
Instead of a hyphen, wouldn't a colon be more appropriate?