Infamy79 said:
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. |
The "rushing" part wasn't about stability, but about the fact that being a refinement of Vista, it could have its reputation stained if it doesn't look different enough from it, and also to the fact that the initial sensation of lightness, compared to Vista, felt by users in the first betas, was somehow scaled down little by little as MS added features and all the corrections, tweaks and fixes necessary to the final release, or at least this was the impression of many users with low-end PC's. Also, MS shot itself in the foot with its greedy policies that enforced on netbooks to slow XP desperately trying to push Vista on them, but only obtaining to give Linux 30% of that market segment (and it could have dropped even less from its initial near monopoly, had HW manufacturers chosen less crappy distros for most of the first models).
