In progress: Vista updates!
In progress right now is a beta testers chat with MS experts on the future of IE7 and Vista. Here are some parts of the chat that may be interesting to you... more to come shortly:
SamW [MS] (Expert):
Q: [17] When will you release the November CTP? Only 2 days left of November!
A: There will be no CTP for Vista in November because we are targeting for most features to be code-complete by end of December and resources efforts are going towards that effort. We should have a CTP in December before the Christmas holiday. These interim changes have no impact on our general availability target for Windows Vista. We are on track to deliver a high-quality Windows Vista in the 2nd half of 2006.
Paul Donnelly [MS] (Expert):
Q: [54] Can someone clear up what seems to be confusion on the groups over the release of Build 5259? Did it go to selected testers or TAP because date of release and extent seems confused. I notice Mario mentions it today.
A: A specific, small group of partners received access to 5259. It is an IDW build and has not gone through the CTP testing process.
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29.11.2005 Windows 7 sales exceed Vista sales by 234%
Consumer Market Research firm NPD has confirmed that initial sales of Windows 7 have surpassed those of the Windows Vista launch.
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6.11.2009 Windows Vista: More Work in Progress
Today, Gartner analyst Michael Silver asked, "Will Vista be done by 30 January 2007?" His answer: "No."
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5.1.2007 Ballmer describes Vista as work in progress
Steve Ballmer has admitted that Vista is "a work in progress", and admitted the company has to learn lessons from its release.
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18.4.2008 Judge Criticizes MS Settlement Progress
At a court hearing to discuss Microsoft's progress in meeting the sanctions imposed in a 2002 antitrust settlement, a U.S. District Judge reprimanded the company over its recent music software flap. Microsoft was also scolded for not moving fast enough in opening its Windows internals to third parties.
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Microsoft Says Vista Sales Strong
More than 20 million copies of Windows Vista were sold globally in February 2007, the first month of sales since its widespread consumer release.
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27.3.2007 Vista no panacea for PC sales
Although Microsoft has characterized itself as happy with Vista adoption so far—and Bill Gates said last week at WinHEC that Microsoft had shipped 40 million copies—the release of the new operating system has not resulted in a significant bump in PC sales.
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24.5.2007 PC sales are growing - but not because of Vista
Worldwide PC shipments are expected to increase by 11 per cent this year spurred by uptake in emerging markets rather than the launch of Microsoft’s Vista operating system, according to research.
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28.6.2007 Vista Will Have Little Impact on Mac Sales: Analyst Says
While the launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system will drive consumer PC sales in the coming months, the operating system's impact on sales of Apple's Macintosh are expected to be minimal, according to a recent report.
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17.2.2007 The Vista Sales Numbers: Anatomy of a Wash
The abundant mix of both upward and downward slopes that have characterized Microsoft Windows Vista sales projections since last September, and the strangely dichotomous co-existence of expectations exceeded and fears realized, has led many experts to start asking serious questions about the role the operating system plays not only in the markets but in our lives:
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19.2.2007 Microsoft: Windows Vista sales grow up!
Microsoft chair Bill Gates today noted at a European news conference that sales of Windows Vista have reached 140 million copies worldwide.
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9.5.2008 Microsoft's new OS Vista spurs computer sales
US sales of computers carrying Microsoft's new operating system Vista soared in the week after it was launched, defying the expectations of analysts who gave Vista lackluster reviews.
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10.2.2007 Vista Sales Estimates Indicate Dwindling Retail Channel
Comparing preliminary information released by NPD this morning regarding launch week sales for Microsoft Windows Vista versus historical NPD data for prior years, BetaNews has learned the news for Microsoft may seem even more daunting than at first believed:
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16.2.2007 Windows Vista sales rate double that of XP
On March 26, Microsoft released its internal sales figures for the first month of Windows Vista. Microsoft said it has sold in excess of 20 million Vista licenses in the first month of latest Windows client's general availability.
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30.3.2007 Vista Sales Near 40 Million, Gates Says At WinHEC
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates also revealed that the official name of the next version of the company's server operating system--heretofore code-named Longhorn--will be Windows Server 2008.
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16.5.2007 Vista sales slow despite record MS profit
The sales rate of Microsoft's Windows Vista is gradually slowing down as the operating system reaches the one-year anniversary of its release to businesses, according to the company's latest financial results.
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28.10.2007 Internal Vista SP1 promo: Rockin Our Sales
Internal Microsoft videos just aren’t what they used to be with Utopian technologies and eye-candy special effects.
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16.4.2008 Microsoft says Windows Vista sales reach 60 million
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile , Research) had sold 60 million Windows Vista licenses as of the end of June, including 20 million copies sold since mid-May, the company said on Thursday.
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27.7.2007 Vista Sales Hit 88 Million, Up 47% Since July
Microsoft highlighted a number of customer migrations it says signify that users are gearing up to switch to the year-old OS.
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21.11.2007 Microsoft: Vista Sales Pass 140 Million Mark
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) claims that sales of Windows Vista are chugging steadily onward, and have now passed the 140 million mark. But that wasn't enough to help Microsoft extend its string of lights-out quarterly financial performances.
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28.4.2008 Are Windows Vista Sales So Bad That Microsoft Needs to Turn to God for a Miracle?
Is Windows Vista, Microsoft’s latest client, underperforming to such an extent that the company needs to turn up the volume of its prayers?
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2.11.2007 Microsoft hones its internal sales pitch for Vista Service Pack 1
With all the controversy as of late regarding the extent to which Service Pack (SP) 1 will improve Windows Vista’s performance, what is Microsoft saying?
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28.11.2007 Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009
With Vista just out the door, Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components.
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10.2.2007 Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009
Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and most are delaying any plans to upgrade until 2009 at the earliest.
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29.11.2007 Windows 7 debut in 2009? Another reason to skip Vista
If Windows 7 really is scheduled to make an appearance during the second half of 2009, does this mean that making the move to Vista is now a pointless effort?
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18.1.2008 Vista SP2 and Windows 7 by the End of June 2009
The evolution of the Windows client, involving both Windows Vista (now with Service Pack 1) and Windows 7, appears to be closer than Microsoft is ready to acknowledge officially.
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18.10.2008 The First Anniversary of the Windows Vista Grace Timer 2009 Crack
Windows Vista is a tad under a month away from its first anniversary, taking into consideration the January 30th, 2007 consumer launch of the operating system. In November 2006, Vista was released to manufacturing and, then, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer, gave businesses the green light to Vista.
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3.1.2008 Windows Vista successor scheduled for a H2 2009 release?
Several industry sources have confirmed to TG Daily that a very early version of Windows 7, previously code-named Blackcomb Vienna, already has been shipped to “key partners” as a “Milestone 1” (M1) code drop for validation purposes.
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16.1.2008 Windows Vista successor scheduled for a H2 2009 release?
Several industry sources have confirmed to TG Daily that a very early version of Windows 7, previously code-named Blackcomb Vienna, already has been shipped to “key partners” as a “Milestone 1” (M1) code drop for validation purposes. A roadmap received by TG Daily indicates that the new operating system will be introduced in the second half of 2009.
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17.1.2008 Microsoft readying RC of Vista SP2 for February 2009
Citing a source at Microsoft, Techarp has revealed that Microsoft is targeting a release candidate (RC) version of Windows Vista SP2 for February 2009.
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24.11.2008Vista not really helping PC sales, says report
Although Microsoft
wants consumers to believe
that Vista has reinvigorated
the computer market, research
firm In-Stat says it really
has no impact at all.
"System sales that
had been muted waiting for
systems pre-loaded with Vista
rather than XP are expected to
work through sales channels in
the next two quarters," said
In-Stat analyst Ian Lao.
"However, these sales
represent an offset from last
year rather than actual new
demand creation."
In
other words, the long-term
expectations have not changed
in the wake of Vista's
launch. In-Stat predicts 300
million PCs to be sold in
2009, the same number it
predicted when Windows XP was
still the most recent OS...
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23.05.2007Windows 7 sales exceed Vista sales by 234%
Consumer Market Research firm NPD has confirmed that initial sales of Windows 7 have surpassed those of the Windows Vista launch. According to
NPD's weekly tracking service, Windows 7 software unit sales in the U.S. were 234 percent higher than Vista's first few days of sales. The
most popular choice for consumers was the Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade followed by the Pro upgrade and Home Premium Family Pack. According to NPD,
software sales of Windows 7 were strong compared to Vista's sales partly due to early discounts on pre-sales and a wide range of promotions.
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06.11.2009June 19 was AT&T's "iLaunch Day 2009", best ever sales
When the iPhone 3GS was announced, analysts expected pretty good sales - nothing too extreme or mind blowing, but not poor either. Apparently they
were wrong. The website Mac Daily News has been tipped off with an internal AT&T company memo, explaining that the 3GS launch was the best sales day
the company had ever seen, and dubbed it "iLaunch Day 2009." We've included the memo below. 1.
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03.07.2009Windows 7 Upgrade Program shifts to June 26, 2009
TechARP has come up with a new revised schedule of Microsoft's Windows 7 Upgrade Program. The Upgrade Program shifts to an early date from June
28, 2009 to June 26, 2009 now. According to the new schedule, end users who purchase PCs pre-installed with Vista between the dates June 26, 2009 to
January 31, 2010 are eligible for a free Windows 7 upgrade. According to TechARP, this slight adjustment was done at the request of many OEMs to allow
for better sales over the first weekend of the Program. It is not possible for Windows XP users to upgrade to Windows 7 unlike Windows Vista users.
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25.03.2009Ballmer describes Vista as "work in progress"
Steve Ballmer has admitted that Vista is "a work in progress", and admitted the company has to learn lessons from its release. Speaking at the Most
Valuable Professional Global Summit in Seattle, Ballmer resisted calls for a slimmed down Windows 7: "Vista is bigger than XP and it's gonna stay
bigger than XP. We have to make sure it doesn't get bigger still."
However, Ballmer went on to admit that it had taken too long to get
Vista out the door and admitted it had caused problems: "Vista is a very important piece of work, and I think we did a lot of things right, and I
think we have a lot of things we need to learn from.
"Certainly, you never want to let five years go between releases... because it turns
out many things become problematic when you have those long release cycles. The design point, what you should be targeting, we can never let that
happen again. We had some things that we can't just set the dial back that I think people wish we could."
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18.04.2008Gates: Vista is Moving at a "Rapid Sales Rate"
Windows Vista seems to be everyone's favorite whipping boy these days.
PC World labeled it the
#1 Biggest Tech Disappointment of
2007 and mini "
E-Wars" are
guaranteed to prop up anytime the names Windows Vista and Windows XP are uttered with the same breath.
Despite the explosive
nature regarding any discussion of Vista, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says that the operating system is
doing just fine. According to Gates, Microsoft
has sold over 140M copies of Vista globally since its consumer launch on January 30, 2007.
"That's a very rapid sales rate,"
said Gates who has been very supportive of the operating system despite the backlash.
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08.05.2008If Windows is a dead end, what's next?
The writing is on the wall. Despite a major push to sell the much-maligned Windows Vista, customers aren't buying. Nearly two years after
Vista's release, Windows XP remains the standard desktop OS in business, and Microsoft has extended its availability three times (currently to
August 2009) due to customer demand. Microsoft itself forecasts just 2 percent growth in Vista sales in early 2009, after lackluster sales in 2008.
And that's after forcing customers to buy Vista to get XP "downgrades."
So all eyes were on Microsoft's Professional Developer
Conference in Los Angeles last week as Microsoft finally took the wrap off Windows 7, the successor to Vista due in early 2010. But early reaction is
that Windows 7 is just a cleaned-up Vista. It's essentially the same kernel and the same OS, with a couple new technologies thrown in, such as the
Surface-based multitouch capabilities and the ability for developers to ribbon-bar-enable their own apps for better consistency with Microsoft's
new UI approach (one that people either seem to love or hate). "It's not anything radical," says Neil MacDonald, a Gartner analyst who follows
Microsoft. "It's a polished version of Vista."
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04.11.2008Vista Sales Perhaps Not as Dire as Feared
After you compensate for a
change in tabulation
strategies over the past few
years, what looked like a
58.9% decline in first-week
retail sales for Windows Vista
over Windows XP, might
actually even out, NPD told
BetaNews...
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19.02.2007Microsoft, Industry Make Progress Defending Against Online Threats
Today at the Black Hat USA 2009 conference, Microsoft Corp. unveiled the progress of its information-sharing programs, providing insight into the
positive impact the growing trend of community-based defense is having on the broader security ecosystem. In addition, in an effort to help improve
customers risk analysis and security update management processes, the company introduced new tools and guidance designed to help security
professionals around the world better manage online threats.
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27.07.2009Michael Dell: Vista will win out in two years
Despite research that found Vista uptake among businesses is slowing, Michael Dell has predicted that most companies will migrate to the OS within two
years.
Dell's chief executive has predicted that most of his company's business customers will migrate to Vista by 2009.
Speaking to journalists at Gartner's ITxpo Symposium in Orlando, Florida last week, Michael Dell said: "We have a number
who have gone to Vista, and almost all are planning to go to Vista: some in 2008, and some in 2009. As they take on new IT
deployments with new hardware features, Vista will be much better supported."
However, Dell's assertions run contrary to
research published earlier in October by market research company Context, which found that Vista sales for business machines were slowing.
winbeta.org - 16.10.2007
Vista Sales Estimates Perhaps Not as Dire as Feared
UPDATED: This morning,
NPD told BetaNews that, after
you compensate for a change in
tabulation strategies over the
past few years, what yesterday
looked like a 58.9% decline in
first-week retail sales for
Windows Vista over Windows XP,
might actually even out...
betanews.com - 16.02.2007
Microsoft readying RC of Vista SP2 for February 2009
Citing a source at Microsoft, Techarp has revealed that Microsoft is targeting a release candidate (RC) version of Windows Vista SP2 for February
2009. Microsoft sent invites to testers in mid October asking them to take part in the SP2 beta. Build 16489 was released to special group of testers
in late October but Microsoft has been quiet since then. TechArp also believes the RTM of Vista SP2 will be in April 2009. Microsoft is readying SP2
so there are additional incentives for customers to upgrade to Window Vista now, instead of waiting for Windows 7.
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neowin.net - 24.11.2008
Gartner: PC sales to drop despite Windows 7
Research firm Gartner have published their predictions for PC sales for 2009, predicting that worldwide sales will fall by 6% from 2008 levels. The
sales of netbooks, however, are set to rise. Gartner forecast that 274 million computers will be sold this year, down from 292 million units last
year. This is actually higher than the 257 million units they predicted earlier this year due to growth that is expected in the fourth quarter of
2009. This growth is set to then set continue into 2010 with a growth of 10.3% currently projected. 21 million netbooks are expected to have been
shipped this year and 30 million are predicted for next year.
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neowin.net - 29.06.2009
XM, Sirius Progress Towards Profitability
As the companies continue to
work towards getting their
proposed merger approved, both
show progress in improving
their balance sheets. Sirius
shows the most improvement,
capturing a 66 percent
subscriber share...
betanews.com - 01.05.2007
The Vista Sales Numbers: Anatomy of a Wash
The abundant mix of both
upward and downward slopes
that have characterized
Microsoft Windows Vista sales
projections since last
September, has led many
experts to ask: Has Windows
evolved out of its shell as a
consumer product, into the
homogeneous commodity that
Microsoft simultaneously hoped
and feared it might become?..
betanews.com - 20.02.2007
EA game sales weak, company adjusts outlook
Recession spending continues to take its toll on Electronic Arts. The software company yesterday announced its guidance for fiscal 2009 would be
adjusted downward as a result of weaker-than-expected sales...
betanews.com - 10.12.2008
Microsoft Details Web 2.0 Progress
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday detailed his company's progress on Web 2.0, saying the company had launched Popfly and the extension of
several other Live Services...
betanews.com - 18.10.2007
Vista Business sales soar like a leaping dachshund
August numbers are in from Context, the European PC market watcher, and they show that the Vista is anything but Buena for Microsoft. Vista Business,
the, um, business version of Vista, Microsoft's new operating system, slowed during the month, to grab a measly 13 per cent of unit PC sales through
Europe's top IT disties.
Maybe, the customers were all on holiday that month - you know how continental Europeans love to take
August off. And July too...a month in which Vista Business accounted for 17 per cent of unit PC sales. In other words, Vista Business peddling is
pedaling backwards, while sales of XP, Microsoft's ever-so 20th century operating system, appear to be stabilising. Unit sales of Windows XP
Professional PCs dropped four points to 27 per cent in August compared with July. But as Context helpfully notes, they remain double Vista Business
sales, leaving "XP professional appearing still to be the business operating system of choice".
winbeta.org - 04.10.2007
Vista Sales Estimates Indicate Dwindling Retail Channel
Though unit sales for Vista's
launch week as estimated by
NPD were 58.9% lower than
Windows XP's in October 2001,
the way NPD tabulates its
launch week data indicates
that retail unit sales of
Vista may actually be 25% or
less per day during Vista's
launch week than for XP's...
betanews.com - 16.02.2007
Windows Vista hurting SSD development, claims SanDisk CEO
Microsoft's Windows Vista is to blame for slowing down the progress -- and, in turn, adoption-- of solid state drives (SSDs), according to Sandisk
Chairman and CEO Eli Harari...
betanews.com - 23.07.2008
