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


"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:alangbaker-7D505F.12555831072007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <Rq-dnWuUXoXYDjLbnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"PC Guy" <pcguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"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!

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?

No surprise you don't understand. Scratch what I said about 3rd grade. I think you need to go back to at least 2nd.


You guys must be truly ignorant if you think that. :-)

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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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