Vista Closes in on 150 Million Sold Licenses
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With the wind of adoption blowing hard in the sales of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the latest Windows client from Microsoft is closing in on the 150 million sold licenses mark.
According to the latest statistics from Net Applications, Vista's market share has jumped over 1% in March, up to 14.02%. At the end of February, Vista accounted for no less than 12.92% of the operating system marker, but the past month represents an important milestone for the platform.
Not only has Microsoft dropped the first service pack for Vista, but it has also announced price cuts for the Home premium and Ultimate editions of the operating system, in a move designed to stimulate the upgrading process from Windows XP. Available as of March 18, 2008, Windows Vista SP1 has yet to make its entire impact felt, however, it can only contribute to accelerating the update pace of the operating system.
Back in December 2007, data from Net Applications indicated that Vista had a market share of 10.48%. In January 2008, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates correlated the figure with an install base of over 100 million copies. The latest statistics made available put Vista right on track for the 150 million mark, earlier than mid-2008, which means that adoption is accelerating.
At the same time, Windows XP's market share continues to drop, and in this context Vista's predecessor is down to 73.59%. And while it was said that Mac OS X and Linux will have the opportunity to grab more audience because of Vista, the share of the open source platform is stagnating at approximately 0.6% for the past four months, this while Apple's operating system jumped from 7.46% in February to 7.48% in March. As such it is clear that Windows Vista's main growth comes at the expense of Windows XP, but that the latest Windows client has yet to grow on its own.
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Comments(9)
craps!
open source platform is stagnating at approximately 0.6% for the past four months
i think the only licenses vista sold is with the oem's ,try to buy a notebook without
that crap installed.
yeah sure, that must explain why red hat linux posted a rather large profit increase last
quarter and has been increasing for some time. other linux distros have increases as well.
so why is m$ dropping pricing again? i am sure that they are not doing it as a
favor to us. vista uptake is below expectations so m$ drop the prices which businesses do
when desperate. oh, pricing does not cover oem versions which may not improve upgrading.
the information in some of this blog and some others is so much propaganda to
spread fud. i prefer reading facts. i use different oses and i am not confined to thinking
single minded about only one os. give us impartial news and not some sugar coated fantasy.
ebook links: http://w13.easy-share.com/1700031180.html
they could use some of that money they made and make it so my external hard drive works
in vista 64? is that too much to ask after sp1??? do i need to wait until sp3?
only reason sales numbers are up, is because it is offered on most new pc s and laptops,
if you took those figures away you can be sure it is far lower on users actually buying
the product, that is why they are lowering the retail software prices
dude, xp was the same and so is every os. u see some random go to a counter buying
leopard without a mac or windows without a pc. most people are lazy to.
yeh, u guys no that. anyone who knows what is happening does not waste their time with
vista. xp is..the platform. besides they are shoving that bloaty in their faces
with oem's, on branded pc's and lappy's. so sad..but someone has to be the sukkers.
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