Vista Sales Rate Fell Last Quarter 449
Microsoft is not directly mentioning Vista demand while they brag about how much money they made last quarter, because sales fell. "[Microsoft] shipped approximately 28 million copies of Vista in the latest quarter ended September, or 9.3 million copies per month. Though the Windows developer pointed to 27 percent growth in business licenses and noted that many home users were buying the more lucrative Vista Home Premium or Ultimate editions, the rate represents a decline from the 10 million per month reported early in summer."
Isn`t it strange? (Score:1, Funny)
Also worth noting (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What about XP sales? (Score:3, Funny)
Vista is the new Coke few want. Ch^H^HRant with me now...
We want our old Coke back!
We want our old Coke back!
Re:Secret plan (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nice troll (Score:3, Funny)
no, it would get more crazy, because every vi nut will find himself married to a girl who extolls the virtues of emacs.
Re:Still outsold all Linuxes combined (Score:5, Funny)
Re:XP Sales? (Score:3, Funny)
Buy any machine aimed at businesses (Score:3, Funny)
I just bought a Dell. They sell the same laptops as "small business" machines that they sell for the consumer market, for about $200 less if you count the service contract - in basic black instead of shiny mac colors, and XP is one of the features they're pushing. They know businesses don't want Vista that will break their programs with those new security features.
You know, if you write an OS that refuses to run any programs at all, then you're perfectly secure.
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Re:The lack of "buzz" is noteworthy (Score:3, Funny)
I think Apple's share price agrees with you.
Re:XP Sales? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No Joke. Re:You got to be kidding me.. (Score:4, Funny)
Eek, modded down so many times! And you almost have a 5 digit user id, so you must have been doing this for a very long time! Well, you're certainly persistent! Have you considered a career in Jehovah's Witnesses? They keep coming to my house and I can't seem to get them to give up. I think you and they may have a lot in common, with the obvious exception that you're slightly more fanatic about your beliefs.
Re:XP Sales? (Score:1, Funny)
Vista is far more stable and bug free than XP SP2, and XP SP2 is fairly crash proof. Vista you can rip out the Video card wait 30secs and put it back it while it is running and not crash the system or even crash a 3D game running. This is something beyond XP, and beyond most OSes in terms of stability.
Remind me to NEVER let you work on one of my computers. Oh, PLEASE go rip the video card out of your system right now while it's running and put it back in 30 seconds later...
I did read the rest, but dicsounted it. (the rest of it is more countless amounts of dribble)
Sorry, I didnt mean to change your relationship to "Foe" but there wasn't an "Idiot" choice.
Re:Still outsold all Linuxes combined (Score:1, Funny)
My
Re:What about XP sales? (Score:2, Funny)
I just bought myself a thinkpad x61s. Lovely little machine. It came with 1Gb of RAM and Vista Business edition. I also bought a ram upgrade to 2 Gb. Unfortunately it has not arrived yet so I am stuck with the wonder of vista at 1 Gb.
First booting the thing. It takes around 10 mins before it is in a usable state, or so my watch tells me. I believe it is much more but vista projects a small pocket in which time no longer has meaning, because I could swear I saw a couple of glaciers speed by.
Then when it finally starts it has already used 90% of the ram and has happily begun swapping to the hard drive. Which means I have 30 minutes before the battery dies.
And then I have three icons in the system tray telling me which wireless networks i am connected with. Thank you very much I really need the same information thrice and I wonder whether you would be kind enough to take up another 50 Mb of ram to tell me again. (I concede that this might be lenovo's/intel's fault)
Then we have a full microsoft office install including a SQL server running. Just not authorized. Because the authorization code that my workplace has for office 2007 apparently is not valid for the pre-installed version of office. Now I have to deinstall everything, and install it again from the CD's at work. Then you have to brave the whole "are you sure you want to remove office"/"allow/cancel"/"special privileges continue"/"take a hit of the whale cock" before it is actually gone. after the machine is rebooted you are greeted with a slew of silly balloon messages and windows telling you that windows has changed the boot-up and "some services have not been started" and "do you want to start them?". No I f'ing want you to shut up and do what you are told, without the town crier declaring it with a trumpet fanfare before and after.
Now I just live in constant fear of pressing or clicking something that will start memory system thrashing.
It has been an interesting learning experience though and I'll see how much the extra ram helps. But for as long as possible I am sticking with XP and Ubuntu on my other machines.
- rant done