Vista Sales Disappointing Despite Microsoft Spin
Microsoft is touting Vista as the best-selling version of WIndows ever.
MS point towards 17 million copies of Windows XP sold in the first two months of 2002 (its consumer release date), against 20 million copies of Vista in the first month of its release to support these claims.
When taken at face value the figures may seem to prove MS’s point but as Ars Technica demonstrate MS couldn’t be further from the truth.
“Still, even assuming a dropoff in sales for Q1 2007, the “doubling” effect can easily be explained by rising PC sales alone. In early 2002, ten million new PCs were sold each month, along with 8.5 million copies of Windows XP. If the numbers hold, the first quarter of 2007 will see at least 21 million new PCs sold per month with Microsoft’s announced 20 million copies of Windows Vista.”
With the continuing improvements in Desktop Linux offerings - along with better hardware recognition, easier configuration and better support - Desktop Linux looks set to become solid contender for the consumer market.
PC manufacturers are noticing Desktop Linux maturity, and with manufacturers such as Dell to offer pre-installed Desktop Linux - Linux is likely to make inroads into MS market share.
If indeed - as stats seem to suggest - it is true that the large majority of the MS OS market share is due to pre-installation then pre-installed Linux could very well be the thing that blows Microsoft out of the water.
Watch this space!
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