Yes, but don't forget those figures include all new machines (even the ones that haven't actually been sold yet to customers!) that come with Vista pre-installed. It now costs around $100 extra to order a laptop with XP instead of Vista. There are no figures to show how many Vista machines are having the Vista stripped and replaced with XP. (Where I work that amounts to hundreds as they have not yet certified Vista to run on their network.)
Don Ferguson wrote: > Yes, you all are very silly indeed. Vista is a wonderful update from XP > (and YES I'd certainly do a clean install). I've got it on my new laptop > and my son's gaming desktop system, and I installed it on a machine I bought > in 2003, all with no issues. The press loves a train wreck (if it bleeds it > leads) and so since there have been some problems in some places with Vista, > that's all we hear about. Gee, big news: a BETA version of a service pack > for an OS had some problems - call NBC!! > > Still, Vista has over double the market share of MacOS, RIGHT NOW, and > that's still with Windows XP retaining a (shrinking) share of the market at > about 75%. > > Yes, for those of you who are mathematically inclined, it's > > 100% = WindowsXP+WindowsVIsta+MacOS+DogsAndCats > WindowsXP = 75% > WindowsVista >= 2 * MacOS > DogsAndCats = Linux, etc. > > And yes, since we don't know the value of DogsAndCats we can't solve the > equation to find out the market shares of Vista and MacOS (but they're > around 12% and 5%, respectively). And yes, that means the DogsAndCats = 7%. > > > MacOS is NOT taking over the planet, regardless of what Steve Jobs says (or > how cool the Mac Air is). Vista and Windows 7 WILL take over the 75-%share > that XP now has. > > Gosh, I must need sleep, and a new Treo/Centro/??? device to play with!! > Either that, or I'm off my meds again - never can remember which it is!! > > :-) > > Cheers, > Don
