On Tuesday 27 March 2007 02:03 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Most of the coverage of this story, picked up from Reuters, looks like it
> follows an MS press release. The Associated Press dug deeper, noting that
> since XP's release the overall PC market has grown by almost a factor of
> 2, so it would be a surprise if Vista didn't do twice as well: "...51
> million PCs were sold to consumers worldwide in 2002; this year... 96
> million consumers will buy a computer."
Where does that number come from?
A few days ago, and in this very group, it was over 250M expected new
machines in 2007.
I ask because of the word "consumers".
If that were the case, and if it were about 96M consumers (including Mac and
Linux consumers), and 160M to industry and as servers, and again including
Mac, Linux etc, things would start to make sense to me.
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