On 2007-03-30, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> Vista sales unimpressive, says expert
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>| Despite Vista's apparent out-selling of XP, February statistics
>| show shipments of Vista to U.S. retailers trailed XP's first-month
>| shipments by about 56 per cent, according to the NPD Group, which
>| tracks retail software sales.
>|
>| [...]
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>| Swenson also blames Microsoft's advertising strategy, which had
>| little TV penetration, for the drop in sales.
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> http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/03/27/tech-vistasales.html
> Survey: Vista Used Less than 1 percent of PCs
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>| Windows Vista may yet prove to be an unstoppable juggernaut,
>| but statistics released Thursday by a market research firm
>| show that the new operating system hasn't even licked its
>| nine-year old ancestor.
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> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129525/article.html
Even the false sales figures should show a drop now (the ones that are
counted as sales, but are really just licenses [mostly unused] bought
by OEMs). Most of the OEMs should already have plenty of buttwipe left
over from the last big sales push.
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Dogs crawl under fences. Software crawls under Windows.
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