20 Million Windows Vista Licenses Sold
In First Month of Availability
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Microsoft announced news from its initial sales figures that over 20 million licenses for Windows Vista were sold in the first month of general availability. This is more than double than what Windows XP did in its release. These numbers include sales to PC manufacturers, retail stores, and upgrades.
"We are encouraged to see such a positive consumer response to Windows Vista right out of the gate," said Bill Veghte, corporate vice president of the Windows Business Group at Microsoft. "While it’s very early in the product lifecycle, we are setting a foundation for Windows Vista to become the fastest-adopted version of Windows ever. Working with our partners, we are helping our customers leverage new tools and programs to accelerate the transition and provide a great user experience."
Read more at the Microsoft press release.
"We are encouraged to see such a positive consumer response to Windows Vista right out of the gate," said Bill Veghte, corporate vice president of the Windows Business Group at Microsoft. "While it’s very early in the product lifecycle, we are setting a foundation for Windows Vista to become the fastest-adopted version of Windows ever. Working with our partners, we are helping our customers leverage new tools and programs to accelerate the transition and provide a great user experience."
Read more at the Microsoft press release.
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JRSCCivic98
Reply #2 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:57 AM
Reply #2 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:57 AM
This should be more along the lines of "Consumers had no choice when buying a new PC at a retail store." If you still want XP you have to buy online now and specify that you still want XP. Pretty soon that'll probably go away as well.
NightTrainthedark
Reply #4 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:00 AM
Reply #4 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:00 AM
Too bad 19,990,000 PC's are still on the shelves. 
Adamness
Reply #5 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:03 AM
The alternative to that would be low PC, and thus, low Vista sales, with Apple and homebuilt and/or Linux computers becoming more prominent. This data shows at least that Vista hasn't stopped people from buying Windows-based PCs. Besides, for the vast majority of people, it doesn't make much sense to buy a boxed copy of Vista, since they probably couldn't run it on their older machines. I'd say this is the best and most realistic news Microsoft could have gotten.
Reply #5 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:03 AM
This should be more along the lines of "Consumers had no choice when buying a new PC at a retail store."
The alternative to that would be low PC, and thus, low Vista sales, with Apple and homebuilt and/or Linux computers becoming more prominent. This data shows at least that Vista hasn't stopped people from buying Windows-based PCs. Besides, for the vast majority of people, it doesn't make much sense to buy a boxed copy of Vista, since they probably couldn't run it on their older machines. I'd say this is the best and most realistic news Microsoft could have gotten.
ZubaZ
Reply #6 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:17 AM
Reply #6 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:17 AM
20 Million Windows Vista Licenses Sold
Too bad 19,990,000 PC's are still on the shelves.
And yet there are 200 Million PCs trying to activate.
NightTrainthedark
Reply #7 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:59 AM
I didn't get what you meant.
Reply #7 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:59 AM
And yet there are 200 Million PCs trying to activate.
I didn't get what you meant.
Philly0381
Reply #10 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:41 AM
Reply #10 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:41 AM
I use Windows XP Home and other Microsoft products, but I got to tell you, numbers are just what they are, numbers. Unless a relationship between current numbers of Vista for a like period of XP is established they are just numbers. There are a whole lot of variables to consider. Marketing allows you to not use or throw out those that don't enable you to sell your product.
Since it's 5 pluse years since XP it's correct to assume there are more computers out there. That being said, I kind of feel the ratio of people not upgrading to XP when it came out is lower than the current ratio of people not upgrading to Vista. In other words people have decided to wait and upgrade in a year or two. My own opinion.
Whether to upgrade should be decided by the strengths of Vista vs XP.
I do get carried away at times, sorry.
Since it's 5 pluse years since XP it's correct to assume there are more computers out there. That being said, I kind of feel the ratio of people not upgrading to XP when it came out is lower than the current ratio of people not upgrading to Vista. In other words people have decided to wait and upgrade in a year or two. My own opinion.
Whether to upgrade should be decided by the strengths of Vista vs XP.
I do get carried away at times, sorry.
Digital3000
Reply #11 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:33 PM
Reply #11 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:33 PM
I bet they counted all the free licenses they gave away as "Sold"
BuddhaV10
Reply #12 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:50 PM
Reply #12 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:50 PM
well, technically, they were sold, if you mean the Free Upgrades for XP buyers. You had to pay for XP to get the Vista, and whoop-de-doo. 20 Million copies in a month. I work at a PC store, and we custom-build PCs for customers. We've had about 20 or 25 customers come in specifically for Vista, and we sell Home Basic for about 5 bucks more than XP Home. what made them mad is that they had to come back in to upgrade their machines just to run it. I still recommend XP home for the average user, and Vista seems like a bigger hassle than it's worth for that demographic. My Gaming PC rated a 4.8 for Vista and it's running fine. But it's a high end PC, so that makes sense to me. but we've had some of the funniest people asking for upgrades. the worst- a 533 MHz PIII(SLOT 1!) 128MB PC133 RAM, and a 10 gig drive. Ati Rage Graphics! and we ended up selling him a whole new system with XP Home.
Phoon
Reply #14 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:56 PM
Reply #14 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:56 PM
and 19.99 Million people that cant get ALL of their software to run!
vStyler
Reply #15 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 1:10 PM
Reply #15 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 1:10 PM
and 19.99 Million people that cant get ALL of their software to run!
S J N
Reply #16 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 2:17 PM
Reply #16 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 2:17 PM
I'll wait. I just bought a new PC 8 months ago and am not willing to spend any more on an unproven OS. I like my XP Media Center edition as everything works and skins very well. 
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #17 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:08 PM
Reply #17 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:08 PM
I hope Vista sales plummet after the initial rush...a new OS should be faster,easier to use and more configurable...Vista is none of these. 
Philly0381
Reply #18 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:06 PM
Reply #18 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:06 PM
I don't mean the stir the pot any more than it has been, but it seems only fair that if we read the Microsoft announcement that we also read what the IT world is saying.
eWeek MICROSOFT WATCH ran this article about Microsoft's announcement.
WWW Link
eWeek MICROSOFT WATCH ran this article about Microsoft's announcement.
WWW Link
scorpNZ
Reply #19 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:13 PM
I hope Vista sales plummet after the initial rush...a new OS should be faster,easier to use and more configurable...Vista is none of these.
It's not the OS it's the user [Quote]Famous chef Gordon Ramsay : don't blame the tools [end Quote] *runs*
Reply #19 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:13 PM
I hope Vista sales plummet after the initial rush...a new OS should be faster,easier to use and more configurable...Vista is none of these.
It's not the OS it's the user [Quote]Famous chef Gordon Ramsay : don't blame the tools [end Quote] *runs*
511b
Reply #20 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:56 PM
Reply #20 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:56 PM
"<.Enron Math> 20 million licenses for Windows Vista were sold <./Enron Math>"
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Reply #1 Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:37 AM
wow