It's fun to watch the haters when facts get in the way of their beloved hatred.
First off, 40 MILLION licenses. Not 40. Not 4,000. SINCE THE START OF FEBRUARY. That's 3.5 MONTHS. Yes there was Vista Business, but it wasn't available for the most part to the general public and wasn't preinstalled on many systems, so most of those licenses are new machines, retail and corporate licenses.
Let's get one thing straight from the top: that's what we in the real world call 'a success'. Accept this and move on. You may want Vista to be an utter flop and for most people to run screaming to MacOS X or Linux - BUT THEY AREN'T. Cope.
Is Microsoft on the verge of dying or failure now that Vista is such a total flop? Well, since the latter assumption is wrong, guess what - the former assertion is also wrong. In fact, Microsoft is doing better than ever. Sorry again - but you'll just have to cope with this one too.
Is it all new sales? Nope. Can't be. They haven't sold that many new machines in just 3.5 months - and Vista didn't ship with new machines starting Feb 1. I'm sure a lot of people took advantage of the upgrade program - but so what - that meant they bought an XP machine and then went to the effort of obtaining the upgrade - and not all of them got it for free.
Corporate sales? Please - have you ever worked in corporate IT? Corporations will stay away from Vista like the plague for at least six months while they test it and make sure it'll play nice in their IT infrastructures. They probably account for a tiny fraction of these licenses.
The fact is, a LOT of people have actually gone out and bought it of their own volition. And, like it or not, a lot of people are actually liking Vista. Certainly not all - not everyone likes everything - nor should they.
I used to be a Mac developer and owned nothing BUT Macs... but when MacOS X came out, I found it wasn't as enjoyable an experience as Windows, and I switched. I still work on both, but I'm mostly a PC user now. I know other people who went the other way and they're happier as Mac users - or Linux users - and that's great too.
But there's something very sad about people who believe that their choice is the only RIGHT choice and then have to go out and browbeat and insult people who don't share that choice or who assume that anyone who doesn't share their view must be a corporate shill (notice they never call down a Mac user for being a corporate shill). There's something even sadder about spending all your time in blogs looking for anything even faintly pro-Microsoft so you can dump all over everyone thinking you're smart or cool.
'Cause you're not - you're just another sad hater.
oooh, another one of those " deal with it ! " comment.
It IS complete monopoly. Linux? Mac? Their influences are too small to be called as other choices.
I'm not one of those, idealistic, Mac fanboyish, open-source freak. I do give a credit where its due. MS does have some good things going on. Extreamly agreesive and well managed business strategy. But what they have got going on is definition of monopoly. It is what it is.
Oh, I AM running Linux but have to go back to Windows sometimes because I have to use certain app. that runs only on Windows machine. One of common thing you notice when monopoly takes a place. (yea, yea, I know virtualization, but it ain't as smooth as running it on its oroginal machine.)
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Monopoly? How so?
If you don't like it... go buy a Mac.
use Linux... use whatever.
Just don't post nonsense... there may be impressionable young minds reading this site, and we don't need people like you making them retarded.
It's fun to watch the haters when facts get in the way of their beloved hatred.
First off, 40 MILLION licenses. Not 40. Not 4,000. SINCE THE START OF FEBRUARY. That's 3.5 MONTHS. Yes there was Vista Business, but it wasn't available for the most part to the general public and wasn't preinstalled on many systems, so most of those licenses are new machines, retail and corporate licenses.
Let's get one thing straight from the top: that's what we in the real world call 'a success'. Accept this and move on. You may want Vista to be an utter flop and for most people to run screaming to MacOS X or Linux - BUT THEY AREN'T. Cope.
Is Microsoft on the verge of dying or failure now that Vista is such a total flop? Well, since the latter assumption is wrong, guess what - the former assertion is also wrong. In fact, Microsoft is doing better than ever. Sorry again - but you'll just have to cope with this one too.
Is it all new sales? Nope. Can't be. They haven't sold that many new machines in just 3.5 months - and Vista didn't ship with new machines starting Feb 1. I'm sure a lot of people took advantage of the upgrade program - but so what - that meant they bought an XP machine and then went to the effort of obtaining the upgrade - and not all of them got it for free.
Corporate sales? Please - have you ever worked in corporate IT? Corporations will stay away from Vista like the plague for at least six months while they test it and make sure it'll play nice in their IT infrastructures. They probably account for a tiny fraction of these licenses.
The fact is, a LOT of people have actually gone out and bought it of their own volition. And, like it or not, a lot of people are actually liking Vista. Certainly not all - not everyone likes everything - nor should they.
I used to be a Mac developer and owned nothing BUT Macs... but when MacOS X came out, I found it wasn't as enjoyable an experience as Windows, and I switched. I still work on both, but I'm mostly a PC user now. I know other people who went the other way and they're happier as Mac users - or Linux users - and that's great too.
But there's something very sad about people who believe that their choice is the only RIGHT choice and then have to go out and browbeat and insult people who don't share that choice or who assume that anyone who doesn't share their view must be a corporate shill (notice they never call down a Mac user for being a corporate shill). There's something even sadder about spending all your time in blogs looking for anything even faintly pro-Microsoft so you can dump all over everyone thinking you're smart or cool.
'Cause you're not - you're just another sad hater.
oooh, another one of those " deal with it ! " comment.
It IS complete monopoly. Linux? Mac? Their influences
are too small to be called as other choices.
I'm not one of those, idealistic, Mac fanboyish, open-source
freak. I do give a credit where its due. MS does have
some good things going on. Extreamly agreesive and
well managed business strategy.
But what they have got going on is definition of monopoly.
It is what it is.
Oh, I AM running Linux but have to go back to Windows
sometimes because I have to use certain app. that runs
only on Windows machine. One of common thing you
notice when monopoly takes a place.
(yea, yea, I know virtualization,
but it ain't as smooth as running it on its oroginal machine.)