MS sells 20M copies of Vista in Feb

[geetrue]

Are we the only ones not purchasing Vista? They even say that this is retail sales:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/software/2007-03-27-vista-sells_N.htm?csp=27

Windows XP sold 17 million in it's first month ...

[Kapitan_Phillips]

I bet they wont say how many people returned it and went back to XP ;)

[Skybird]

Must not mean much. Could be because no PCs today get sold without it. I know about Saturn Münster (Saturn is one of the two major electronic warehouse chains in Germany and belongs to the same corporation like infamous Media Markt) that a salesman in the PC department said the separatly available Vista copies they have in stock lay "like lead on the shelves". I know that guy, we sometimes meet for spending lunchtime breaks together. I think he knows how the sales with Vista are going in their (big) store.

Releasing high sales numbers also is a means of advertising, and undermining doubts of potential customers.

[Penelope_Grey]

XP is rock solid, can't go wrong with it can you? And it runs everything, so Vista is just well... meh... who needs it?

[JSLTIGER]

Must not mean much. Could be because no PCs today get sold without it.

Agreed...the majority of those numbers are springing from PCs that are coming with Vista pre-installed...in 2001, when XP launched, 52 million PCs were sold that year. This year, there are expected to be 92 million PCs sold. The difference of 40 million PCs makes the additional Vista sales this year mostly irrelevant.

[TteFAboB]

I'm very happy with XP. In a few months I'll build a new PC from scratch and I have no intention of installing Vista on it. Untill it's absolutely necessary I'm sticking to XP. It's great. It works just fine. And my only concern is DirectX10, though I have hope either hackers or consumer pressure will get that on XP. If anything, I'll make a Vista partition on the HD just for those things that I absolutely can't run on XP. If that's possible, of course.

But if I ever install Vista next to XP, why not switch to Vista as the main option? Because I haven't been convinced yet that Vista will increase performance. If it's just like XP, with no performance advantages, I prefer the simplicity of XP. I'm still using the Win95 Theme on XP because I find it much more practical. If I'm not using the internet or any software (Word, Outlook, etc.) I'm playing a game. Graphical gimmicks make no positive difference whatsoever. A flashy browser will distract me. A flashy Word toolbar will distract me. A flashy Outlook will annoy me. And when I'm playing a game I'm not looking at the desktop anyway.

What are, afterall, the benefits of Vista? As far as I'm aware, the only one is the new super-cool Solitaire. I'm drooling for it, but that's the most expensive Solitaire game I'd ever buy. :88)

[bookworm_020]

If Vista is pre installed on a new computer, I wonder how many would change it back to XP???

I wonder how many of the sales of Vista are stand alone copies?? and how many returned???:hmm::hmm:

[Sulikate]

XP is rock solid, can't go wrong with it can you? And it runs everything, so Vista is just well... meh... who needs it?
I agree. I'll wait at least 6 months more to "up"grade to vista.

[Skybird]

I'm very happy with XP. In a few months I'll build a new PC from scratch and I have no intention of installing Vista on it. Untill it's absolutely necessary I'm sticking to XP. It's great. It works just fine. And my only concern is DirectX10, though I have hope either hackers or consumer pressure will get that on XP. If anything, I'll make a Vista partition on the HD just for those things that I absolutely can't run on XP. If that's possible, of course.

But if I ever install Vista next to XP, why not switch to Vista as the main option? Because I haven't been convinced yet that Vista will increase performance. If it's just like XP, with no performance advantages, I prefer the simplicity of XP. I'm still using the Win95 Theme on XP because I find it much more practical. If I'm not using the internet or any software (Word, Outlook, etc.) I'm playing a game. Graphical gimmicks make no positive difference whatsoever. A flashy browser will distract me. A flashy Word toolbar will distract me. A flashy Outlook will annoy me. And when I'm playing a game I'm not looking at the desktop anyway.

What are, afterall, the benefits of Vista? As far as I'm aware, the only one is the new super-cool Solitaire. I'm drooling for it, but that's the most expensive Solitaire game I'd ever buy. :88)

That sums up my own attitude towards Vista very nicely. If I would buy a complete system (if!) with Vista preinstalled, I would kill the HD and install XP again. Game-wise, I have advantages over the younger ones - I am not interested much into new games any more. DX10 is the last of my concerns - as long as SBP will not getting based on it. :lol:

It very well could be that my next PC - will be just a laptop. I'm tired of the constant update merry-go-round. i also refuse to run a stronger PSU than I already operate now (550W). 1500W PSUs? Are they nuts?

[Linton]

I returned my vista computer.It was useless,and would not talk to any of my equipment (printer,modem etc.)Dell refused to install xp on it.

[tycho102]

I suspect the marketing statistics are misleading if not outright false. Microsoft "leverages" computer manufacturers with their product.

Makes for a good press release, especially in reference to millions of small investors ($0.5 million in "liquid" assests) who are too busy to otherwise question the press release, much less have the knowledge to interpret it.

[The Munster]

An article in PC Pro states Microsoft are disappointed with the sales figures of Vista so far.
Like Penelope, I am content with XP.

[STEED]

I bet they wont say how many people returned it and went back to XP ;)

Vista is a joke and a bad one at that.

[STEED]

An article in PC Pro states Microsoft are disappointed with the sales figures of Vista so far.
Like Penelope, I am content with XP.

The problem is one day Microsoft will stop all the updates and patches just like Win95/98 and 2000.

Until then XP rules the waves.

[Linton]

I have just bought a mint copy of xp on ebay.The bidding was fierce-get your copy while you can!

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

I've persuaded my mother to let me (I'm earning money now but she's still managing the budget) buy a new computer right now as opposed to delaying it just so that I can still GET a computer pre-installed with XP rather than Vista... it sounds like Vista isn't something I want to upgrade to within this year.

By the way, why do the systems requirements go up exponentially with each version of Windows? I just don't see where enough improvements to warrant 2-4x the RAM requirement in each version, and each version seems to run slower than the last - remember the good old days in DOS when I can change directories in one second. Now I have to wait ten as the folder loads...