____/ Matt on Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:22 : \____
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/143960/leopard_beats_vista_for_corporate_satisfaction.html
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>> In a February survey of 2,200 U.S. corporate computer users,
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>> More than half -- 53% -- of the computers companies plan to buy in the
>> second quarter will be equipped with Windows XP, the survey said, compared
>> to 20% with a version of Windows Vista and just 8% with Mac OS X.
>
> So of the 81% (53% + 20% + 7%) of planned new corporate computers for
> which the planned OS is known, about one-fourth (20%/81%) will get
> Vista. In short, Vista has a one-fourth market share in corporate
> computers.
>
> Vista's general PC market share is considerably higher than one-fourth
> (at least 40%), so Vista licenses are concentrated among non-corporate
> buyers.
Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
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| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however,
| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought
| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm
Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008? Don't Count On It
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| Vista has certainly been slow out of the gate. Sure, Microsoft is putting the
| operating system on newly shipped systems, but Vista sales didn’t benefit
| from the upgrade surge that previous OSes got upon release. A year after it
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| began shipping, less than one percent of corporate desktops are running
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| Vista.
| ^^^^^
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/will_windows_vi.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Microsoft's SEC:
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| A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating system...
| To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, sales
| of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for
| our products, and revenue and operating margins may consequently decline.
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http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
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