Vista has better first month sale than XP

[giganten]

Vista 20m in first month

I hope this isn't old news.

Vista is selling well:

Whether you think Windows Vista is the slickest OS to date or you think it's a bloated piece of junk, sales figures don't lie. Windows Vista has sold twenty million legitimate licenses in its first month. That's 2*10^7 for everyone playing along at home. And it's also the most successful launch in the history of operating systems.

To make a comparison, Windows XP (widely considered a successful product launch) generated 17 million legal licenses in its first two months.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/03/28/vista_sells_20m_licenses/

 

[FredAkbar]

The Associated Press dug deeper, noting that since XP's release the overall PC market has grown by almost a factor of 2, so it would be a surprise if Vista didn't do twice as well: "...51 million PCs were sold to consumers worldwide in 2002; this year... 96 million consumers will buy a computer." Also, Microsoft's 20 million figure includes the backlog of upgrade coupons bundled with XP computers sold since last October.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/27/0011207

edit: clearly I didn't RTFA myself, as that idea is mentioned in the bit-tech article linked above as well.

 

[dopey220]

I'm hoping Vista does really well. I like being in the 5% minority.