“Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News.
“Standalone unit sales of Vista at U.S. retail stores were down 59.7 percent compared with Windows XP, during each product’s first six months on store shelves, according to NPD Group. In terms of revenue, sales are also down, but the drop has been less steep, at 41.5 percent,” Fried reports. “‘It’s just not doing well,’ NPD analyst Chris Swenson said of Vista’s performance at retail stores.”
MacDailyNews Take: No, ya think?
Fried continues, “Just because boxed Vista sales are down doesn’t mean they won’t pick up, [Swenson] added. He noted that XP sales peaked a few years after its 2001 launch… But given the fact that only relatively new PCs can be upgraded to Vista, and with standalone sales not showing signs of improving, Swenson said, ‘it’s looking less and less likely that this will happen.'”
“News on the retail front is brighter for Office, which was released to stores the same day as Vista,” Fried reports. “While much of the sales were for the new Office 2007, Swenson said just over 20 percent of all boxed copies of Office were Office for Mac. Swenson credited the large number of people switching to Macs as part of the reason for the spike in Mac Office sales.” [Bold emphasis added by MacDailyNews.]
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: All you need to do is read the Vista reviews. “Five years for a chrome-plated turd” pretty much said it all.
“There are now more Vista machines in use than Macs of any flavor. Yet Apple is a success and Vista is a failure? Only in bizzaro world.”
Yeah, well, McDonald’s sells more hamburgers than anyone else. That sure as H doesn’t mean McDonald’s makes the best hamburgers in the world now does it? In fact, I’d say they are amongst the WORST.
“There are now more Vista machines in use than Macs of any flavor. Yet Apple is a success and Vista is a failure? Only in bizzaro world.”
there are more cockroaches, than people, this does not make them a higher life form…..
there are more… therefore it must…
ahhh bless, he doesn’t get it, does he.
I had someone say to me the other day that they really like the mac. However, they decided to get a windows machine because when something goes wrong, they know plenty of people that can help.
I then said to him….when you buy a new tire for your car, do you buy a flat one because there are plenty of people that can fix a flat tire?
I have spent some time in Vista and it is LAME. Vista is really annoying to use. My advice is to stay away.
If you need some Windows in your life, stick with XP. It’s worth paying $$$ not to use Vista.
“What does Microsoft do, pull error messages out of their butt????”
Yes, but they’re not allowed to do it all at once. Their engineers calculated that it would create an enormous vacuum and obliterate the city of Redmond, Washington. Ballmer is also no longer allowed to use a ThighMaster for similar reasons.
shen,
The cockroaches use Windows, don’tcha know.
I have never used Vista, or XP, ME, 2000, or 98.
HA!
Cockroaches may use Windows but they’re scared to death of Raids.
That sure as H doesn’t mean McDonald’s makes the best hamburgers in the world now does it? In fact, I’d say they are amongst the WORST.
Ever stop at a Hardee’s or White Castle? Gotta love the grease and onions…
As for the relevance to Apple and Windows? Something about Vista just screams “Happy Meal”. Too bad you don’t get a prize.
Brand new 20″ aluminum iMac owner here (as of Friday, courtesy of my very loving lady friend). The first piece of software I bought for it was a Windows XP/Office 2003 bundle to Boot Camp with.
In short, f*^k Vista! There’s a milion reasons why M$ doesn’t waste the $$ to advertise it.
I’ve got a home business to run and I’m not going to have my success to be affected or impacted by that nonfunctional dog shyt OS.
I’m shocked ANYone uses it.
My two cents.
Peace.
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Olmecmystic
…this is off topic but I realized what’s been bothering me about this photo of the Vista-neck sweater team. If you convert the photo to gray and squint it’s reminiscent of stills from Tod Brownings 1932 movie Freaks
From truemors.com:
“Skype announced a new worm that affects Windows Skype users. It’s called W32/Skipi.A by FSecure, Symantec calls it W32.Pykspa.D. Infected computers send a chat message to other Skype users that asks them to click on a link. Then the recipient gets infected. Another fun day in the Windows world.”
You don’t have to suffer.
Whatever you or I think about Microsoft or Vista, it’s a pretty shocking statistic concerning Vista vs. XP sales.
Just think of all the effort the Vista development teams put out only to receive such universal scorn for the final product! That must be incredibly disheartening. ONE integrated team couldn’t fuck up so badly could they?
Recently, I’ve had 2 family members switch to Macs, with another waiting for their Dell box to die. These are/were dyed-in-the-wool Windows users, too. One has been a software developer and tester, the other running a home business. The fence sitter was another Wndows developer!
One sent an email… the first DAY of using a new Mac mini…saying he couldn’t believe how logically Mac OS X is and he was already doing things more efficiently… ONE DAY! Maybe the iPod I gave his son had some effect.
Microsoft certainly isn’t going away anytime soon, but news like this must sting everyone in Redmond pretty badly. I kinda feel sorry for them.
One side benefit?
There have been no recent reports of Fat Boy Ballmer shooting off his mouth lately.
@Olmecmystic
welcome, and congrats
just one question, did you consider office for mac ?? could of skipped using windows at all??
While much of the sales were for the new Office 2007, Swenson said just over 20 percent of all boxed copies of Office were Office for Mac. Swenson credited the large number of people switching to Macs as part of the reason for the spike in Mac Office sales.
I want to be a troll now!
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ths shows that maqs suk cuz evn XP doez all we need an macs alwaz breaks and need update x.2 break x.3 break x.4 break!!
One has to wonder what the Hell those guys are doing up in Redmond. They must run that ship like the US Government for Vista to be such a piece of crap. It is, too, I bought my wife an HP laptop with Vista on it because she said that she didn’t want to learn anything new like my Macs (she’s an AOL user!?) and I don’t really let her touch my MacBook. I have refused to touch her laptop anymore because Vista just sucks all over. So, it’s hers to figure out on her own. She already thinks that Vista sucks and I have begun the campaign of conversion by giving my 3 year old my old G3 B&W;w/Panther. She has to use it just about every day because he always wants to play games on it. HAHAHA. She’ll be with us soon, and I’ll have a brand new HP Laptop to load Linux on for goofs!
When life gives you lemons….
Apple should put a dent in Vista sales by releasing a PC only version of Tiger called Hasta. It would be funny to watch, no drivers etc. but those people who could use it would make a lot of positive noise.
@SAB
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look at the bright side: she can take hints from VISTA how to suck on a whole new level
“DOS Computers, manufactured by millions of companies, are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.” –The New York Times, November 26, 1991 (also quoted in MacAddict 4).
MDN: “Personal” as in Vista, a very personal frustration
d00d M$ makes the best commercials.
Seriously, this is the official MS promotional video for the DOS 5 update. I think the video speaks for itself.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1774935
“Yeah, well, McDonald’s sells more hamburgers than anyone else. That sure as H doesn’t mean McDonald’s makes the best hamburgers in the world now does it? In fact, I’d say they are amongst the WORST.”
But you miss the point, McDonalds are a huge success, and Joes single outlet store, voted best burger in town is comparatively, a failure.
And the argument like that doesn’t really scale to PCs. It’s not like Apple are a single location burger joint. Apple, like McDonalds and Microsoft software are available to almost all consumers worldwide. Buyers could be choosing either, but for some reason choose Vista and other Microsoft products in overwhelming numbers compared to Macs.
And in less than a year the Vista user base has totally surpassed the number of Macs in use.
All that says is Microsoft is doing something right compared to Apple.