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Windows Vista, the much touted and hyped operating system from Microsoft that was long over due, is now out in the market for more than 2 months. Microsoft announced a month back that Vista sales-licenses sold to PC manufacturers, copies sold to retailers. and upgrades ordered through the Windows Vista Express Upgrade program-have exceeded 20 million copies. According to Bill Veghte, corporate vice president of Windows Business Group at Microsoft:
This represents a “more than doubling” of the initial pace of Windows XP sales, which reached only 17 million in January 2002, after two months on the market.
We are encouraged to see such a positive consumer response to Windows Vista right out of the gate
The folks at Ars Technica were quick to point out on this that, while Microsoft has really sold twice as many copies of Windows Vista, than those of Windows XP, however the growth is a merely a result of more Computers being sold. In the first quarter of 2002, just over 31 million PCs were sold, as compared to 65 million PCs sold in the last quarter of 2006.
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