From: mike 

On Wed, 16 May 2007 18:18:07 -0400, mike  wrote:

>
>http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39636
>
>===
>BILL GATES IS quite adept at spinning defeat from jaws of victory, and
>he almost gets away with it due to the overly tame press. Let's look at
>the latest example of failure spun as victory, his WinHec speech.
>
>The headline is simple, 40 million copies sold. Wow, we rox0rz! This is
>twice as fast as the XP adoption rate. What he didn't mention is that
>sales of PCs have more than doubled since XP came out. Silly Vole, no
>statistical cookie.
>
>The problem? Well, PCs sell at about 60 million units a quarter, and
>everyone we talk to expects sales of around 240-245 million units in
>2007. Vista went on sale at the end of November for corporate customers,
>and one would expect a fair chunk of sales there from pent-up demand.
>...


http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2130424,00.asp

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"We have been amazed by the response to Vista and what has happened in
the last 100 days. So, in the first five weeks of shipping Vista, we have
matched the installed base of any other operating system provider,"
Gates told several hundred attendees in an address entitled "Platform
Innovations for Today and Tomorrow."
===


Does the phrase "damning with faint praise" come to mind?


For Pete's sake, Microsoft Windows is a MONOPOLY is 90+% installed base. If
all Gates can say is that "we have matched the installed base of any
other operating system provider", then Microsoft Windows Vista must
truly be in sad shape.



Is Microsoft Windows Vista the beginning of the end for Microsoft's desktop monopoly?

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