Vista sales reach 60 million mark
updated 02:35 pm EDT, Thu July 26, 2007
Vista sales hit 60 million
Microsoft is now saying that it has sold over 60 million licenses for its latest operating system, Windows Vista. Reuters writes that the figure was announced at Microsoft's annual meeting with financial analysts, and is the most recent data available from the company since Vista hit the 40 million mark in May.
The announcement appears to confirm a permanent slowdown in Vista sales, which ran to 20 million in the first month, but were halved for both March and April. This rate remained relatively constant from the beginning of May until the end of June.
During the analysts' meeting, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer indicated that a number of major organizations have renewed multi-year contracts with the company. Further speaking to the future, Ballmer said he believed growth must come not only from expanding the core software business, but by succeeding in newer ventures such as online services and audio hardware.
weeeeeee!
07/26, 02:52pm reply
horay microsoft!
you have sunk your green teeth deeper in to corporate america!
Herod
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audio hardware?
07/26, 03:01pm reply
Is he kidding? Zune 2.0 must finally bring on an 'ipod killer'
Toyin
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And....
07/26, 03:41pm reply
Of course, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/3 of this 60 million total were given away as free upgrades, but who's counting??
MacnTX
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the slow adoption
07/26, 05:12pm reply
Headline should read, "60 million PCs were sold that happened to have Vista on them."
Rezzz
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sad
07/26, 05:16pm reply
to know that there are so may disillusioned people out there.... Let's burn a candle for them.
tortenteufel
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true!
07/26, 05:36pm reply
This does NOT mean there are 60 million people using Vista. Only 60 million licenses sold, including the unsold computers sitting in Wal-Mart, etc.
bigpoppa206
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Hmmm...
07/26, 06:56pm reply
I suspect this number includes a massive number of licenses sold to businesses as part of new hardware - which the business then downgraded to XP.
cacruden
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Vista?
07/26, 10:01pm reply
I needed a copy of XP Pro for the new Mac a few weeks ago. Man what a headache trying to find a copy. I found a computer shop that had one copy left. His words, "Since Vista came out, we can't keep XP Pro in stock."
I wonder what XP Pro sales have been like?
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