Microsoft Proves Vista Is Not a Failure with 180 Million Licenses Sold
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversWindows Vista might not be the top seller that Microsoft had forecast before the operating system hit the shelves at the end of January 2007, but the latest Windows client is by no means a failure.
Quite the opposite, in fact; according to the Redmond giant, Vista has sold over 180 million licenses in its first year and a half on the market. On July 17, 2008 Microsoft posted its financial results for the 2008 fiscal year ended June 30, 2008. A consistent slice of the total $60 billion revenue in the company's past fiscal year was brought in by the Windows Client division, specifically by Windows Vista.
The Windows Client division accounted for a revenue of $4,3 billion just in the fourth quarter of FY2008, up 15% from just $3.8 billion in the same quarter of the past year. As far as the whole of FY2008 is concerned, the revenue produced by sales of the Windows Client division are over $16,8 billion, a consistent increase (13%) over the approximately $15 billion of FY2007. In the last quarter of the 2008 fiscal year, Microsoft obtained a profit of Profit $3.23 billion from its sales of Windows.
Microsoft was little hesitant of indicating that Windows Vista sales were responsible for the high revenue of the Windows Client division. The bottom line is that the Redmond company is proving that there is strong demand for its latest version of the Windows client, and that the operating system is indeed selling, even with Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows 7. In May 2008, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced that Vista had passed the 140 million sold licenses milestone, which means that sales of the operating system exploded to a high of 20 million units per month following the general availability of Service Pack 1.
At this point in time, Windows Vista is credited with a share of 16.14% of the operating system market, a figure which is consistent with an install base of just over 160 million Vistas. However, Microsoft is traditionally counting not the copies of the platform that were actually sold to customers, but all the licenses shipped into the channel, meaning also the Vista platforms that went to retail outlets and original equipment manufacturers, despite the company's claim that "Windows Vista (...) has sold over 180 million licenses since launch".
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microsoft proves vista is not a failure with 180 million licenses sold.
the
only reason why there are so many licenses that were sold is because large electronic
stores and others accept to sell whatever micro$oft sends them to sell. clients are
treated like caddle...mooooooo...
for 2 years now anybody going into an
electronic store is automatically sold a computer with vista pre-installed. few clients
knew they could ask for xp pre-installed because that info was being drowned out. and for
the many who asked for xp to be pre-installed, many store won't do it.
so that
leave very little choice. people get onboard with vista and then discover it is total
crap. they need to re-learn where everything is, lots of spyware, resource hog, admin
tools and system tools hard to find in some cases...
we keep on reading these
propaganda articles boasting micro$oft vista's sales only coz they got the money and the
torque to keep on influencing and pumping them out.
if linux had that kind of
money the world would be linux.
people may be treated like cattle, but if you go into a store and pay for what is
current, people would be pissed off to get something thats not even going to be supported
soon.
i can also tell you don't know much about computers if you complain
about having to relearn, and spyware on an os.
the truth is that they sold 180 million systems, vista just came along for the ride like
always..
codyp...v50 and truth is 100% correct. to bad you are one of those gotta have everything
new individuals and everything not brand new isn't usable to see past 1 inch in front of
your nose. owell hopefully the next version of windows will come out so we can have xp
verse it discussions. i'm tired of hearing vista...it gives me a headache just thinking
about it
ok here’s some rough calculations:
16.14% of internet users are vista
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=11
1.4 billion internet users
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
assuming the usage rate is
consistent around the world…
1.4 billion * 16.14% = 226 million vista internet users
the only way the user base would be significantly less than this number is if
for some reason, vista users surf the internet way more than all other os's to skew the
percentage up to 16.14%. i highly doubt this. and it’s probably more likely that that
some vista users don’t use the internet much because it’s for work mostly. hence more
likely there are more than 226 million vista users.
chances are that vista
adoption in the “rich” (and more regulated) hitslink logged nations is held back a little
by the expense of vista. so that could mean that other “poorer” (gov’t don’t give a crap)
nations have a much greater than 16.14% vista market penetration since you can like buy it
at the local fruit shop for like $1, etc.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_sof_pir_rat-crime-software-piracy-rate
hey, if you include all of asia? 500 million vista users??? ;)
who cares ?
180 million just because there is not another choice!!!!!!!! what a fraud!!!! who wrote
this article?!!!
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By V50 on 24.07.2008 - 17:07