Like I said...
Jul. 21st, 2007 06:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfwings...Vista is to Microsoft, as the PS3 is to Sony.
Microsoft admits they expect XP sales in 2008 to be at least 1 for every 4 copies of Vista sold.
Compare this to earlier this year, when Microsoft was telling OEM's that they would have to switch to Vista only by January, 2008.
Either that stance has changed, or they're admitting one month of XP sales (and remember, you can basically only buy it from OEMs right now, so with new computers!) will be equivalent to almost three months of Vista sales. Says something either way, doesn't it?
Microsoft admits they expect XP sales in 2008 to be at least 1 for every 4 copies of Vista sold.
Compare this to earlier this year, when Microsoft was telling OEM's that they would have to switch to Vista only by January, 2008.
Either that stance has changed, or they're admitting one month of XP sales (and remember, you can basically only buy it from OEMs right now, so with new computers!) will be equivalent to almost three months of Vista sales. Says something either way, doesn't it?
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Date: 2007-07-21 06:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-21 09:34 pm (UTC)There's Vista software.
Technically...
Date: 2007-07-21 10:50 pm (UTC)But you can't even get video-card drivers to support most of the features that were popular under XP yet, like SLI and other essoteric functions. When the OS itself has worse support for video-card features on bleeding-edge hardware than Linux... Houston, we have a problem!
Yeah, same here.
Date: 2007-07-21 10:53 pm (UTC)So they bought another laptop, moved the RAM upgrades and what-not across themselves, and have the Vista 'laptop chassis' sitting on a shelf in their closet now as a reminder to never get Vista.