Another Day With My PC

What probably took Linux or Mac OS X a year or two was abbreviated by Microsoft to just a quarter of a year.

In a speech made at the Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Microsoft Corporation’s top honcho, Bill Gates, announced that the company has already sold almost 40 million copies of Windows Vista.

The pace has been considered as somewhat blistering, considering that the figure is larger than the install base of the company’s toughest competitors. It also edged out Windows XP in sales, with Gates saying that people embraced the new OS twice as fast as they did when XP was released.

The trend or figures given by Gates on Vista are not that surprising. You might think that Gates’ numbers are inaccurate, especially since Vista’s release has been met by numerous skepticisms. One would definitely arrive at a higher figure for Vista than with any other software, even with Microsoft’s most successful product, Windows XP.

But the comparison made by the Microsoft boss is flawed. Vista sales would definitely outnumber that of XP’s during the same period since there are many persons now who own computers. PC sales have risen astronomically since XP was first introduced to the market. It’s only logical then, that Vista would outmatch XP in sales.

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