Ballmer Says Vista Selling Really Well 692
An anonymous reader writes "Steve Ballmer is in no way disappointed with Windows Vista. It is selling 'incredibly well,' he told a press conference in Herzeliya, Israel today. 'Vista sells on almost 100 per cent of all the new consumer PCs around the world,' the Microsoft CEO proclaimed. He added that the operating system was also selling on '45 percent of all of new business PCs.' Which is enlightening, since business users are about the only buyers of new PCs that get a choice." Anyone know anybody who bought Vista except as bundled with hardware?
I can't disagree (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stupid question (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Question (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I know some... (Score:3, Funny)
Don't know anybody, or don't regret it?
Vista Media Center is worth the price of admission (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I know some... (Score:3, Funny)
This is Slashdot. The answer should be obvious. No need to rub it in.
And bush says Iraq is a huge success (Score:2, Funny)
HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, etc not interested in $E3? (Score:5, Funny)
All of them have their $4,000 laptops and Media Centers, but Apple sells twice as many as them combined. Tell me another good joke about vendors not being interested in high margin business and I'll tell you a good joke about a $400 OS and a $450 Office suite. Steve Ballmer is blowing smoke from his crack pipe.
Re:The Question (Score:5, Funny)
You'll be stuck in engineering forever. With that attitude, you'll never make it into marketing.
Re:The Slashdot Stepfords (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Question (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I believe it (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I believe it (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's PC Magazine and just about everyone. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We worry more than other people (Score:2, Funny)
Is kind of depressing to see your comment modded as insightful, I thought geeks used logic instead of fanboyism.
Re:Sales of Windows off 24% (Score:3, Funny)
The Russians had looked up the definition of "hacker" in the Jargon File and been inspired to leverage the creative power of open source Free Software. The first campaign took place in August 2006 and was detected a month later, having affected around 250 Nordea customers.
The emails claimed to be from the Nordea Open Trojan Foundation, telling recipients to install an anti-spam and donation tool. Their computers were then infected by the Trojan HaxDoor.RMS.w32, which installs itself in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 and sends your passwords to its creators, but only after you have read through and accepted the GNU General Public License and checked the README file for known problems. The email also included full source code.
Swedish police traced the attacks to Russia by looking at the contact details, including address and phone number, included in the README. They have filed over 100 bugs on the creators' SourceForge project and joined the mailing lists on the grass-roots marketing and publicity site SpreadHaxDoor.com.
A Nordea spokesman said the attacks have "quietened down" after the initial influx last Autumn. "We are constantly looking at the security of our online banking and many different measures are taken. We are updating our systems behind the scenes. Many already run on enterprise Linux distributions, but we will be moving desktops to Linux as well for more efficient funds transfer with less reverse engineering required, and may recommend that our customers do the same."
The Trojan only affects computers running Windows. "For unsupported platforms, we have an 'honor system' which gives our details so you can send some money in," said a spokesman for the hacker group. "We hope this will help and encourage contributors interested in porting the Trojan to other operating environments."