Microsoft’s “new and improved” operating system, Vista, is less appealing to new PC buyers than Windows XP was during it’s first year on the software market. Once one factors in the market size, which has doubled.
Microsoft’s chairman, Bill Gates, was speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week and revealed the news. Some say Gates unintentionally revealed the news. Gates mentioned that Vista shipped 100 million copies since its launch in January 2007.
That number may sound big but put into the perspective of all new PCs shipped that number is only around 39%. That would mean that Windows XP, Linux, and OS X took up about 60% of the market share of new PCs in 2007.
Windows XP released a month after 9/11 sold about 89 million copies according to Gates at the 2003 CES. Since 2001 the PC market has doubled. Which would mean that on the surface a 10% increase may seem good until one factors in the doubling of the market.
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