Vista Ships 180m Copies In 18 Months

Author	Gordon Kelly
Published	18th Jul 2008

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180 million copies of Vista sold and it's still struggling for acceptance. That's the news off the back of Microsoft's Q4 results this week which fell well below analyst expectations.

For the final quarter the giant behemoth posted revenues of $15.8bn, an 18 per cent year on year increase while profit was up 13 per cent at $4.3bn. Still, Microsoft was full of reasoning behind the – still impressive – numbers pointing to the impact of the credit crunch on online advertising revenues and stressing caution for future quarters. It also hasn't gone unnoticed that had the dollar not been so weak its overseas sales would have significantly reduced all these overall figures.

Coming back to Vista and Microsoft was keen to stress sales had increased significantly in the last two months – but that's hardly surprising with XP stock dwindling before finally going off the market at the end of June. What's more, the vast majority of Vista sales are still from the purchase of new PCs (where the OS is the defacto standard) rather than upgrades which would suggest greater interest from the consumer.

Of course the upgrade market in itself is in something of a lull with the aforementioned credit crunch and the fact most computers can happily do the basics (web surfing, word processing, email) with their existing hardware and software.

A bitchy man might even say they do it better with XP, which – funnily enough – ties in with my view entirely...

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Ed said on 21st July 2008

life...

You have 500,000 computers in your company? Who on earth do you work for?!

life said on 21st July 2008

@ Ed - I work for GE (General Electric) mate. Our IT/IM departments have a boat load of tasty hardware and systems... being a bit of a tech junkie, it helps keep me relatively happ... more

Helidoc said on 21st July 2008

TR is all about seeking views, but:
1) Gordon's Vista bashing goes beyond an objective analysis of the product
2) It gets a bit wearing
3) It is currently... more

Gordon said on 23rd July 2008

Thanks life
@Helidoc - surely I should say what I think in my professional opinion, no? Randomly changing my tune when I have seen nothing worth changing it for would be dis... more

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