Vista: 40 million licenses sold in 100 days

In just over a month Vista has picked up a larger installed base than any other competing OS (read: Linux and Mac OSX)! In short, the fastest selling OS in history. Direct from the horse's mouth:

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.

Ofcourse, Mac fanatics aren't going to be content with that. MacDailyNews was so frustrated, they started searching for any reason they could use to account for this sales spike, including:

MacDailyNews Take: The last "major" release of Windows was in October 2001. Fewer computers were being sold to sheep in 2001. Hence, as more boxes are being sold today with Vista pre-loaded, more copies of Vista are being "sold." As if people knew or were "choosing" what they were buying.

Ok, so even with the brand value Apple has made in the past couple of years, it's still not a part of our conscious buying habits? I wonder if Microsoft can say the same thing about the Apple iPod. Adrian Kingsley asks the right questions:

If Vista is such a failure, why is it selling so well? If the Mac platform is so good, why aren’t sales better?

Questions? Answers?

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"If Vista is such a failure, why is it selling so well? If the Mac platform is so good, why aren’t sales better?"

You mean selling so well to dell and acer? As oems? Are you stupid or do you just act that way?

By  Chris mankey, at October 25, 2007 5:58 AM 

umm, that's the predominant MS model and the one Apple decided to go against. I'm very happy to see Mac grab terrific market share but I don't appreciate sensationalization much...

By  Farooq, at July 3, 2008 2:14 PM 

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