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thunder wrote:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:27:09 -0400, HK wrote:


Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises,
Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying
Thursday that it has now shipped *88 million copies* of the operating
system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of
time at its launch.

Almost double? Doesn't seem that impressive when you consider the personal
computer
market has almost doubled since XP was introduced. In 2002, there were 51
million PCs sold.
In 2007, 96 million are expected to be sold.

Apple by now has half the market capitalization of Microsoft, which says
something as it is bigger than Oracle, IBM, Intel or HP. Its market
share probably grew 37% last year (estimate for 4th quarter). It is
currently at 8% market share.
And its newest operating system release (Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard") sells
at USD 129 (everyone gets the "ultimate" version) - and is in many ways
more advanced.
But still, in absolute numbers of operating systems sold, Microsoft
rules.

Marc

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