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10-26-2007, 12:06 PM
|  | You Magnificent Bastard! | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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| | | Vista: 88 million sold
With all the Leopard hype (you know, that amazing new Apple OS that actually lets you back up the system), you'd think no one was buying Vista. Since Vista is so bad and everything. » Windows Vista: More than 88 million copies sold | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
Turns out that Vista sales have helped Microsoft to an earnings of $4.29 billion (fiscal quarter).
Weird, huh? From all the talk around here, you'd figure no one was on Vista. Numbers are showing that more than double the number of Vista licenses have been sold than XP at the same release time. (Though you have to realize that there are millions more computers on the planet than back then).
I guess Grandma can buy a new computer and use Vista, but gamers can't figure it out.
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10-26-2007, 12:17 PM
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| | | It's more like there were 87.999 million copies bundled on a new computer that you had no real choice what OS you got. |
10-26-2007, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by YankeeDeuce  | True, most computers are bundled with it unless your order it and request it to be not put on. I wouldn't doubt that it's very near that number of new computers bought with the OS installed.
We work with that OS all the time here at work now, and we'll be installing it on new computers next year.
whatever the reason, they did a good job of getting Vista onto a LOT of computers out there.
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10-26-2007, 01:46 PM
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| | | Each of the company's five business divisions showed double-digit revenue growth. That was particularly important in the Client Div., the group where Microsoft counts Windows sales. There, revenue jumped 25%, to $4.1 billion, an astonishing gain for a mature market. Microsoft estimates that PC sales grew 14% to 16% in the quarter. The larger revenue gains came as consumers went for the pricier, premium version of Windows Vista.
Microsoft's Entertainment & Device Div. got a huge bump from the Sept. 25 release of Halo 3. Microsoft rang up $330 million in sales of the game in the final week of the quarter. But Halo 3 sales, coupled with a price cut on the Xbox 360 console, also spurred sales of the console, so much so that it outsold the wildly popular Nintendo (NTDOY) Wii console during the month, according to market researcher NPD Group. Microsoft sold 1.8 million Xbox 360 consoles in the quarter, twice as many as a year ago. The division's sales went up a stunning 91%, to $1.9 billion, in the quarter.
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10-26-2007, 02:37 PM
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| | | Yeah i think it's all because most PC's come with vista on em, and most dumb consumers know nothing about it and buy it anyway. Still Vista's not that great of an OS, if we gamers cant figure it out the best way then obviously it's not working perfectly with other projects that sort of fall under our category. Unless you have a crazy rig that can do it just as well. I dunno, this doesnt seem right. Maybe M$ is playing with the numbers somehow. |
10-26-2007, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by CoffeeShark
Microsoft's Entertainment & Device Div. got a huge bump from the Sept. 25 release of Halo 3. Microsoft rang up $330 million in sales of the game in the final week of the quarter. But Halo 3 sales, coupled with a price cut on the Xbox 360 console, also spurred sales of the console, so much so that it outsold the wildly popular Nintendo (NTDOY) Wii console during the month, according to market researcher NPD Group. Microsoft sold 1.8 million Xbox 360 consoles in the quarter, twice as many as a year ago. The division's sales went up a stunning 91%, to $1.9 billion, in the quarter.
| Nice info Coffee
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That's now my pat answer for anything the Office Idiot says to me... "I have balls of steel... I have balls of steel.. ballsballsballsballsballs.... Blow it out your ass"
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10-26-2007, 02:53 PM
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 : 38 th | | | I have both xp and vista and when I run games in xp on full with no problems when I boot up vista(on the same rig) and run the same games I can hardly run it on low,so for gaming I'm sticking with xp
for now.
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10-26-2007, 03:59 PM
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10-26-2007, 04:09 PM
|  | lawlkill | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Boston
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| | | Poor 88 million people. |
10-26-2007, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by panic! | rofl
i was DYING to post that picture, finally found some news to use it with.
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