Re: Vista exceeds Apple's installed base in first five weeks of shipment!
- From: Alan Baker <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:23:16 GMT
In article <1i248au.184eaj51udpt6vN%notinuse2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
notinuse2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Hayes) wrote:
Alan Baker <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1185836511.319654.323500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Edwin <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 30, 5:54 pm, Alan Baker <alangba...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1185835808.565157.291...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Edwin <thorn...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
"The install base of Windows computers this coming 12 months will
reach one billion," said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO. "If you stop
and think about that for a second, by end of our fiscal year '08 there
will be more PCs running Windows in the world than there are
automobiles, which to me is kind of a mind-numbing concept."
Pretty much everything numbs Ballmer's mind.
Where does a twerp like you get off making fun of Ballmer?
Oh, come *on*, Edwin.
Do the math, for once in your life:
The world's population is something like 6.5 billion and approximately
1.8 billion of them are age 14 and under. That leaves 4.7 billion.
Why discount those under 14? Probably half of them in the developed
world have computers in their bedrooms making them the single biggest
demograph.
No. Not even close to half, Peter. The developed world has poor people
too, and lots of households with decent enough income don't really see a
point in having more than one computer for the household.
Then factor in that nearly 3 billion people in the world live on less
than 2 dollars a day, so take 46% of the remaining 4.7 billion away and
you're left with just over 2.5 billion people who could reasonable use
those billion computers.
A billion copies of Windows *sold* over the years: sure.
A billion in used (installed base): no way.
I don't think it's an altogether unrealistic estimate.
What is mind-numbing is the thought of the billions of man-hours lost
thanks to the billions of reboots every month just to install security
updates.
If these lost man-hours had been put to productive use, most of the
planet's basic problems would be solved.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135158-pg,1/article.html
--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."
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