| Alby_da_Wolf said: From that report, it looks like Win XP is hitting MS (killing Vista's hopes) (*) harder than Nintendo or Sony or Apple or IBM or Google or Nokia or Oracle could even dream to. (*) and possibly damaging Win 7 too, as it forced MS to rush it, so it could have troubles smaller but similar to Vista's ones. |
Windows 7's release may have been brought forward to combat lagging Vista sales, but its in no way a rushed product. Its amazing how stable its been since even the beta releases. Most of the architecture changes were made in Vista which means the developers have had enough time to get the drivers and applications compatible. One of the biggest changes was applications needing to run as Administrator to even function.
Given there are still many Windows XP computers sold (mostly to enterprise) they are still making pretty decent money on those sales. They are only getting affected by the drop in the computer sales market as people wait for Windows 7. However given they have already taken almost $2 billion in sales from Windows 7 and deferred it til Q2, I'd hardly say it was affecting them that much. If you include those numbers their sales would be almost exactly the same as in 2008.
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