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40M and counting - Vista license sales

by Tarinder Sandhu on 16 May 2007, 15:37

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Longhorn


How successful has Microsoft been with its Windows Vista operating system?

Bill Gates has announced that Microsoft has shifted nearly 40M licenses in the 100 or so days since the retail launch of the latest and greatest.

What's interesting to note is that the Premium Edition has weighed in with more than three-quarters of all sales. We guess that Ultimate's near-£300 pricing is hard to stomach.

Further, Bill went on to tell WinHEC (Windows Hardware Engineering Conference) attendees that Windows Server 2008, formerly known as Windows Server Longhorn, is the cryptic new name for its newest server OS. We could never have guessed.


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Posted by cheetahdavie - Sat 19 May 2007 23:00
I suppose bill is counting all the OEM and such like;I dont known anyone who has “upgraded”:shaun:
Posted by Spud1 - Sun 27 May 2007 07:45
Good stuff, I imagine most of these are OEM as cheetahdavie says, sold with new PCs..but even so 40m in 100 days isnt bad :)

Just need to educate more people to the wonders of Vista..and get them to upgrade now…it's in their best interests.

Server 2008 is pretty cool too..I installed the latest MSDN build last week and had a play..and it has a few nice new features, and some much improved system views over server 2003. It also has a rather cool ‘console only mode’ where you can install server without explorer..everything is done through cmd.exe. Unfortunately its not a ‘true’ console mode as you can clearly see a background behind the console window (which actually runs in a window), but explorer isn't installed or running, which definitely saves on CPU time and memory :)

Its looking very much like an amalgamation of Vista and server 2003 at the moment..hopefully it will begin to differntiate itself a bit more over the next few years :)

Oh and for some reason .NET is not installed by default with the current builds…something else I expect to change.