Windows Vista sales about half of what XP was

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That is if you use real world numbers. In further testing, I pulled out an Acer 4400 laptop (Has a AMD 64 Turion ML-30 CPU, and an ATI x700 graphics card) and started using that as my promary laptop, and I still don't like it. Actaully, I'm digging for something to like incase anyone cares. So far, I'm coming up short.

I solved my VPN problems by finding a Beta driver (won't be ready till August or so) as a crutch. It works OK, but has the ability to crash the whole laptop back to completely rebooting - scary. I didn't think you were supposed to be able to do this on Vista? Guess that has been proven wrong now.

-S

Analyzing Microsoft's Windows Vista sales claims
Is Windows Vista being received as favorably as Microsoft suggests? In a news release yesterday, the company said it sold more than 20 million Windows Vista licenses in the first month of availability, more than twice the initial sales of Windows XP. Microsoft said the numbers reflected "broad interest" in Windows Vista's features.
But as P-I reporter Dan Richman noted in his story this morning, the PC market has grown by a similar rate between then and now. That, by itself, would lead to a natural increase in Windows sales. From the story:

Given that the personal-computer market has nearly doubled since Windows XP launched, Windows 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.

Meanwhile, Joe Wilcox of Microsoft Watch offers several additional reasons to question Microsoft's claims. He writes: "By my accounting, Vista is actually off to a slower start than Windows XP, using real world comparisons."

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