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[lostcarpark]

Microsoft say they will have sold 100 million copies of Vista by the end of the year. Not bad, eh?

Except that the PC industry were predicting sales of 250 million PCs. That seems quite a big discrepency. Especially when you consider some of those copies would be people who upgraded PCs bought before 2007.

I'm assuming Macs and computers running Unix/Linux are included in the PC figure, but I can't see them accounting for more than 10% of the total. That still leaves well over 200 million, which presumably means that well over half of the PCs sold in 2007 shipped with XP.

It could just be that sales started slowly in the first half of the year. It would be quite interesting to see figures for the second half of the year when Vista could be considered "established".

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[dougs.livejournal.com]

Not that my anecdotal evidence is statistically significant, but I've just installed 38 new PCs for my accountant's offices -- ordered early November, installed December 8th -- and we specified XP for those.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, we have lots of new laptops around, and not one running Vista.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

I should have said that part of the reason for the slow take up is corporates who have standard PC builds that have to be thorougly tested with all their applications. In my workplace we only recently migrated to XP - from NT 4. When - and if - they move to Vista will be interesting.