Vista turns one and businesses are still dragging their feet
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| According to a Forrester survey, after eight months only 2 percent of
| corporate PCs were running Vista
|
| [...]
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| For instance, Gartner forecast at the time that fewer than 5 percent of PCs
| worldwide would be running a business version of Vista by the end of this
| year.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/30/Vista-turns-one_1.html?source=rss&url=www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/30/Vista-turns-one_1.html
Related:
Microsoft Refuses to Reveal Current Vista Sales
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2122837,00.asp
Vista sales rate cut in half
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| While significant, the sales point to a rapid slowdown in adoption of
| the new operating system. Microsoft had observed that it sold 20
| million copies in the first month, which doubled XP's achievement
| but now indicates that the average number of copies sold has been cut
| in half during March and April. The firm has so far declined to
| compare its most recent figures with the relative size of the market
| today or to any decline that may have occurred during XP's 2001 release.
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/05/15/vista.sales.halved/
Microsoft Vista Business sales slow, XP stays steady in European IT channels,
says Context
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| Channel sales of personal computers equipped with Microsoft's new Vista
| operating system for business users, Vista Business, slowed in August 2007
| accounting for 13 percent of unit PC sales through Europe's top IT
| distributors, according to IT market researchers Context. That's down from 17
| percent in July 2007.
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http://computers.tekrati.com/research/9416/
Vista sales slow despite record MS profit
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| The sales rate of Microsoft's Windows Vista is gradually slowing down as the
| operating system reaches the one-year anniversary of its release to
| businesses, according to the company's latest financial results.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/10/26/vista.sales.rate.slowing/
Nine burning questions about how Vista is really doing
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| Instead, there's so much spin -- from Microsoft, from rivals such
| as Apple Inc., from market analysts pushing research and more research
| -- it would even leave Sasha Cohen dizzy. Here's our attempt to unravel
| this puzzle-shrinkwrapped-in-a-mystery.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9021838
http://tinyurl.com/2u6gzq
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
|
| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
|
| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
Here’s One Reason Why Microsoft Can’t Sell Windows Vista
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| Of course, Microsoft is probably between a rock and a hard place to some
| extent, simply because they built an operating system that millions and
| millions of PCs can’t run, or at least run efficiently with all features
| intact.
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http://macnightowl.com/2007/11/29/heres-one-reason-why-microsoft-cant-sell-windows-vista/
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