Windows XP Still Outselling Windows Vista

nandemoari writes with an excerpt from an InfoPackets article that says "While Microsoft excitedly tries to sway public opinion by touting that Windows Vista License sales top 180 Million units, Hewlett-Packard (HP) was busy smacking Microsoft down — reportedly shipping PCs with a Vista Business license but with Windows XP pre-loaded in the majority of business computers sold since the June 30 Windows XP execution date established by Microsoft — casting a lot of doubt over how many copies of Vista have actually been sold."

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

this is true. they may just hit 3% market share in the uk before the end of the decade. woohoo!

Re:Numbers are accurate

[clang_jangle]

Oh Balmer, give it up already...

To quote..

[nawcom]

Beavis from an old Beavis & Butthead episode commenting on an artist of a music video, Microsoft "Probably went to a doctor to see what's wrong and the doctor said, "You suck"."

Yep. Vista just sucks.

Re:Wow

[Futile Rhetoric]

Do you mean Linux, or Vista?

Re:Stop paying MS for bad software...

[Anonymous Coward]

You've never met my sister, have you?

Who hasn't? You're mom isn't too bad either but your sister is definitely better.

Re:Numbers are accurate

[morgan_greywolf]

You're not doing it right! Look, you're not supposed to post anonymously. People will think you're a troll! No, you're supposed create an account, say some good stuff about Apple, get modded up, get good karma and THEN post our stuff! You're fired! *throws chair*

Astroturfers! Astroturfers Astroturfers!

Thanks,
Steve B

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

I can feel it, 2009 will be the Year of the Vista Desktop.

Re:Stop paying MS for bad software...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi there, welcome to Slashdot. Aside from keeping up with twitter sockpuppets, the one thing you need to remember about posting here is that you never, ever mention your sister or your mom. Certainly not in such an exploitable way.

Following these guidelines will result in many years of continued geeky fulfillment. Thank you, and enjoy your stay.

Re:Wow

[Darkness404]

Yah, because with any luck Windows 7 will be released... Unfortunately, it will probably suck worse than Vista, thus driving up Vista adoption

What is Vista?

[OrangeTide]

I never heard of this Vista. I switched from AIX to Linux in the 90s. Are fringe operating systems like Vista really appropriate front page news for a respectable publication like Slashdot?

Re:Wow

[molotovjester]

Why would Linux be the only alternative?

Keeping XP on the old machines, reusing licenses, using ubuntu, and a plethora of other options exist.

Your assumption that linux is the only alternative reveals a bias.

Fanboy much?

Lipstick on a Pig

[curmudgeon99]

As the saying goes, you can put lipstick on a pig but still nobody is going to want to kiss it. So goes with Vista.

Re:Lipstick on a Pig

[Anonymous Coward]

Have you been to Alabama?

Re:Wow

[rbane3]

16 UID Ahead of me, submitted = 1m before me... I think I've found my nemesis!

Re:Numbers are accurate

[Anonymous Coward]

Even if Microsoft shipped a glazed canned ham and a 6-Pack of Bawlz ... people did not really want).

So... if you're not going to eat the ham, can I have it?

Re:Stop paying MS for bad software...

[Nathrael]

You must be new here. This is Slashdot. We Slashdotters know women only from those...documentaries on the Internet.

Vista rules, screw allayall.

[Xupa]

Vista kicks. I love it. If you actually know how to operate an operating system you don't have these hater troubles. XP was a lot cleaner but I haven't had an issue with Vista period and I've got mine trimmed down and rocking product.

Re:Stop paying MS for bad software...

[Oswald]

If your dad can use software right out of the box, I'm envious. Mine finds ways to fuck up surfing the web. It's not entirely his fault--an astonishing number of websites that appeal to right wing, fundamentalist Christian, stock tip-hunting hypochondriacs only "work" with Internet Explorer.

Obligatory

[Mathinker]

I, for one, welcome our new born-knowing-Windows with-mouse-in-the-hand overlords!

Re:Stop paying MS for bad software...

[MrMacman2u]

Not really, think of DirectX as a package of features, I'll use DirectFart(tm)(r)(c) as an example to help you understand.

You not only get the DirectPrawn/Direct3DD Graphics hardware acceleration and DirectFhysics allow your graphics engine to have a killer particle engine to produce those greenish vapors and even flames if you have the DirectLighter extention, but you also have to consider the DirectInpoot to control the user experience (usually through tacos and mexican food) and DirectSowwnd to produce the EAX positional audio effects.

Of course you can't forget the most important and distinguishing feature of DirectFart, DirectSmell and DirectX/Forced for when you really gotta push your system to use it's DirectFart feature set.

Re:Lipstick on a Pig

[drodal]

Have you been to Alabama?

They use vista in Alabama?!?

Re:More statistics

[Mycroft_VIII]

I'd be guessing the .15% is Wind9x or NT (or perhaps bob, but that's just too scary).

Mycroft

Re:Does this even matter?...

[muellerr1]

I don't understand your analogy. Can you use one involving cars?

Microsoft's business plan

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Produce crappy OS.
2. Produce crappier OS.
3. Sell lots of the first OS.
4. Profit!

The ??? have been revealed!

Selling?

[NicknamesAreStupid]

It is like asking how many tax returns did the IRS "sell" last year.

Re:Does this even matter?...

[fm6]

OK then. It's like saying that a car that pisses all over your rug is OK, because at least it doesn't eat your children.

Re:Wow

[that this is not und]

1997 called and it wants back its alt.os.windows.advocacy spam.

Re:Stop paying MS for bad software...

[Just Some Guy]

not a gamer- those are consoles for children to *play* with.

True. I was just thinking the other day, "this interactive graphical program is just too much fun and un-chorelike to be a game."

My other pastimes include swimming on asphalt because water is too cool and refreshing to be enjoyable, and skateboarding on cinderblocks.

Re:Stop paying MS for bad software...

[berashith]

geez, did ya fill the doll with concrete?

Re:Wow

[Hucko]

... IBM already has worked many hours bringing lotus technology to linux,...

I am not sure we want this...

Re:And this is why you get the RTFM response

[evalf]

When do you teach a new driver how to break. When the car is standing still, when he first got it moving forward OR when it is approaching a concrete pillar at 120 km an hour in a snowstorm?

Well, that concrete pillar will surely help him break!