“Microsoft Corp. said Monday it sold 20 million consumer copies of the new Windows Vista operating system worldwide in February, but analysts said the data shed little light on the program’s popularity during its first month on the market,” Jessica Mintz reports for The Associated Press.
Mintz reports, “By comparison, Windows XP, Vista’s predecessor, sold 17 million copies in the two months following its 2001 launch, Microsoft said.
“‘It’s a stronger than expected start,’ Bill Mannion, a director of product marketing for Windows, said in an interview,” Mintz reports. “But given that the personal computer market has nearly doubled since XP launched, Vista sales ‘probably should be more,’ said Michael Silver, vice president of research at Gartner, a technology research group.”
“The analyst said 51 million PCs were sold to consumers worldwide in 2002; this year, the research group predicts 96 million consumers will buy a computer,” Mintz reports. “Starting in late October, PC makers included coupons for free or low-cost Vista upgrades that could be used once the software became available at the end of January. Microsoft’s February sales total includes those promised upgrades, in addition to licenses ordered by PC makers to install on new computers, shrink-wrapped copies sold in retail stores and downloads from the Windows Marketplace Web store.”
Mintz reports, “‘That would say that those (Vista sales) numbers aren’t all that great if that includes all that backlog,’ said Silver.”
“Shipments of Vista to U.S. retailers in February lagged XP’s first-month shipments by about 56 percent, according to the NPD Group,” Mintz reports. “NPD analyst Chris Swenson said he thought Microsoft’s advertising strategy, which he said was light on TV commercials, was partly to blame for the drop in retail sales. Microsoft should have more TV ads selling Vista than Apple has criticizing Vista,’ he said.”
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from Wikipedia, “Kegel exercise” entry
Ain’t the interweb amazin?
Yeah, but why spend CO2 travelling on the interweb when you have a great dictionary right in your Tiger Mac? You don’t even need to type the word. No effort at all. Use it!
Vista is already more popular than Mac OS X after a couple of months of public release.
Leopard will now have to be purchased by every Mac owner in existence in it’s first month to be more successful than Vista.
You’d have the ability to say Microsoft’s sales suck when Apple sells 20 million Macs in a month.
R2—– For you, kegel exercises are when put your buddies 2 fingers in your butt hole and you squeeze as hard as you can 10 times.
These stats, pathetic as they are, once again demonstrate the total dishonesty of Microsoft. They are in habit of faking success — sucksess(?) — abusing statistical sampling to make their non valid point(s). They faked it with Zune and now they fake it with Vista. Only now we have the web and people who deconstruct the lies of this mafia gang from Redmond and their echo chamber analyst and pundit whores.
The old lying game doesn’t work anymore. Gates, Ballmer and the rest of the evil empire’s generals make public assholes of themselves every time their lips move.
<b>R2</r>: “what are kegel exercises?”
Stick your probe into that data port and Google it, you stupid trashcan with feet!
@ Sales Force:
AAPL: $95.85
MSFT: $28.22
It seems those who invest money know which has more value…
MW: “table” as in “Let’s table the trolls.”
“The old lying game doesn’t work anymore. Gates, Ballmer and the rest of the evil empire’s generals make public assholes of themselves every time their lips move.”
Dittos on that.
If people had already been computer savvy when Gates started MS there would be no MS. His products, MS-DOS and Windows, have almost no value. Now that people are becoming computer savvy BG has to lie to try to convince them his product is better than the competition. That won’t work for very long.
“AAPL: $95.85
MSFT: $28.22
It seems those who invest money know which has more value…”
I love Apple as much as the next Apple lover but for you to oversimplify a comparison between the two companies by putting their stock price up there is silly.
Here is some light reading for you. Read it, then come back and post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_capitalization
Since there are six actual (five ostensible) versions of Vista, it would be interesting to know how sales of each version of Microsoft’s turd has changed since Vista release. Anyone have a link to these data?
“In its first month of sales to the general public, Windows Vista sales broke 20 million, making it the fastest selling version of Windows thus far.”
Pretty good for one month´s sales – that´s the entire number of OSX Apple computer owners in the world.
Although we all think Apple is the greatest we must keep it in perspective….out of every 100 computers sold today only 4 will be Apple computers.
Apple just can´t figure out how to convince more people to buy Apple computers.
Instead of sitting on that $10 Billion cash horde maybe Apple should invest in more and better advertising and marketing.
@ Hm…
“AAPL: $95.85
MSFT: $28.22
It seems those who invest money know which has more value…”
Well, “Hm…” you just totally revealed your stock market ignorance (or stupidity) there. That is embarrassing.
For shame, for shame.
So just when is M$ going to admit – that it have a real DOG on it’s hands – it looks like the marketplace all ready has!
Bottom line – this DOG (Vista) isn’t going to hunt!
Ever!
“Yo, Perspective, dude! How often I gotta go through this, huh? Anyone hang around here for long knows we got something along the lines of 7%-15% installed base o’ de market.”
The Macheads are sure foaming at the mouth today! 7-15% installed base? That’s sort of like saying my age is 21-44.
“AAPL: $95.85
MSFT: $28.22
It seems those who invest money know which has more value…”
I’m assuming you’re either trolling or another ignorant Machead. MSFT has more value. Take a look at the market cap for the respective stocks and Microsoft’s record profits last year. Share price comparison between two companies means nothing.
Windows Vista suffers from a bug that causes many machines to stall while deleting, copying and moving files, a flaw that has provoked consternation in online forums. Microsoft has issued a hotfix for the problem, but it has failed to quell the outrage. For one thing, individual users must get Microsoft’s approval before the fix can be downloaded, according to our tipster. And for another, hotfixes are more of a pain to install than patches.
Vista users continue to grumble. “I simply can not believe that I updated to a new computer and put windows Vista on it to find that it’s not even capable of moving and deleting files in an efficient manner.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/26/vista_copying_bug/
What does the MW: mean at the end of a post?
Sorry, but I’ve been trying to figure this one out for a while now….
Well, here is something Vista could’ve been used for…
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=829#more-829
Geo
the Magic Word you have to type to submit.
Why the “low” sales of Vista?
We’ve probably ALL seen it. Most Windows users are scared to death of their computers.
They’re afraid of viruses, spy and malware.
They’re afraid to install applications and try different things, because once they manage to get their machines into some stable form, they’re scared to death that ANY little thing will break it.
One example:
My sister complained that when I connected my PowerBook to her cable modem… I shut down her XP box before disconnecting it… that I messed up her connection and it took her several hours to get it running again. And she’s a programmer! I offered to buy her a wireless router, with a firewall and everything. NOPE! It might break something. No more broadband for me at her house! Sheesh
With all the news stories about how Vista messes up your computer and slows down your system and requires an entirely new machine and breaks your current software and pesters you with alerts and requires repeat authorizations to use the damn thing…
Seems like Microsoft has broken things for you already!
@Stockholder & Reality Check
Market cap is not the only reflection of a company’s value. In fact a more accurate measurement is earnings per share, which takes into account the size of a company. Apple is smaller that Micro$haft, duh, but their EPS are 2.76 and 1.17 respectively, making Apple the FAR BETTER VALUE.
In the future, please do own your homework before insulting someone else.
“Sold” means in hands of dealers, not actually sold.This is the way MS operates.
Go back and look at the last 5 years of stock price performance history and it’s easy to see who is doing better between M$FT and AAPL. If you bought one share of each 5 years ago today, here’s where you would be now…
M$FT: Down 6%
AAPL: Up 600%
Screw market cap. As an investor, it doesn’t matter a single squat in the woods. I don’t own the whole damn company, I just own a bit of it for a certain period of time. And if you look at that period of time for AAPL and MSFT, say, the last 6 years, and you look at how the relative value of these two stocks has changed, you will easily see that AAPL is crushing MSFT as an investment. The next question you as yourself as an investor is – who is better positioned going forward? Who has more room to grow?
If you answered MSFT… you might be a redneck.
-c
MW: ‘covered’ (your shorts yet? pity.)
Vista TV ad (from what I can recall)…
Young boy looks out his homes window at large snow fall… quietly exclaims “Wow!”
Man exits house (to go jogging? pick up a newspaper?), sees a reindeer/buck standing on the street in front of him and goes “Wow!”
Woman jogging thru mountains, stops to check her time (wrist watch), looks back at scenery and says “Wow!”
Cut to the only aspect of Vista seemingly being hyped or worthwhile, a screen of the 3-D Flip/Rolodex, and some lame closing words about Vista.
That was about it.
…
Hey, Reality Check, eh? Yeah. 7%-15%. It’s all in who you listen to, ya? Someone says 7. Someone else says 15. I said 10. So I’m right. You gotta problem wit’ dat?