Re: Vista exceeds Apple's installed base in first five weeks of shipment!


"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:alangbaker-6B4231.10235231072007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <kMGri.42302$Um6.23700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"John Slade" <hhitman86@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:alangbaker-8A7AF5.15540130072007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <1185835808.565157.291520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Edwin <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Read it and weep, Maccies:
>>
>> Microsoft Thursday moved to counter criticism about the uptake of
>> Windows Vista by announcing it now has shipped 60 million copies of
>> the operating system.
>
> What's to weep about?
>
> Who here wouldn't have expected this?

If you didn't, why are you responding to Edwin stating the obvious?

>
>>
>> "By our math, we eclipsed the entire install base of Apple in the
>> first five weeks of shipment," Kevin Turner, Microsoft's COO, said at
>> the company's annual financial analysts meeting.
>>
>> Turner said there are 42 million PCs covered by volume-licensing
>> annuity agreements for Vista. He said strong renewals for enterprise
>> agreements are driving the uptake. "Customers are purchasing the
>> rights to Vista because they are planning deployments," he said.
>>
>> He said Continental Airlines plans to roll out 10,000 seats of Vista
>> by year-end, and Banco Bradesco in Brazil has rolled out 70,000 seats
>> this year. Microsoft itself has rolled out 100,000 seats.
>>
>> He said deployments were being driven by corporate rollouts,
>> governments and midmarket customers.
>>
>> Microsoft said its Windows install base will reach another milestone
>> in the next 12 months.
>>
>> "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.

Maybe if you guys would spend more time advocating OS X and the Mac
and less time lambasting Microsoft, maybe you could accomplish something.

John

How much time have I spent lambasting Microsoft, John?

Show me the posts...

Please note the words "you guys". Sheesh!

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