Re: Vista exceeds Apple's installed base in first five weeks of shipment!
- From: Alan Baker <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:55:58 GMT
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"PC Guy" <pcguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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"John Slade" <hhitman86@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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!
In a post addressed to me, I'm supposed to understand that I am *not* to
be included in the group to which "you guys" refers?
You guys must be truly ignorant if you think that. :-)
--
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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