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Windows Vista passes 88 million sales

Operating system backbone of Microsoft’s biggest growth in almost a decade
By James Stables on Monday, October 29, 2007

Sales of Windows Vista are reported to have rocketed past the 88 million mark, as Microsoft celebrate their highest growth since 1999.

Despite criticism of the uptake of Windows Vista, a Microsoft spokesman said demand was healthy in both corporate and consumer environments.

“Customer demand for Windows Vista this quarter continued to build with double-digit growth in multi-year agreements by businesses and with the vast majority of consumers purchasing premium editions,” said Kevin Johnson, president of the Platform and Services Division at Microsoft.

Strong sales of Halo 3, Microsoft Office 2007 and the price cut of the coveted Xbox 360 also set up Microsoft for a bumper year.

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I can understand the uptake in the consumer arena, however, in the corporate sector all that I personally have read is that they are a little reluctant in taking up Vista. Office 2007 on the other hand is a great piece of software. I use it and I am well pleased with it and I am still learning new tricks with it. What I really would like to see is Vista settle down with a service pack and for all the Windows Live Betas to come on stream to enhance Vista or is that asking to much. J.B.
29/10/07 | 08:39
 
Out of interest, what do you want in the service pack that will make it better?
30/10/07 | 11:00
That is a difficult question and I have been thinking about it a lot. What I would like to see is a start up monitor like the one Windows Defender has. I am running Windows Live Onecare and in order to stop something that is running at startup I have to enable Windows Defender to stop it running at start up. Then I have to reboot so that Onecare can disable Defender. I know that this may sound minor in a lot of ways but having a start up monitor would simplify the process. I hope you understand what I am trying to say. J.B.
30/10/07 | 01:44
 

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