Microsoft Q1 Financial Results

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Alby_da_Wolf said:

Infamy79 said:

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.

 

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).

 

No... your fears are without warrant... I've been using the OS since June and right now with all the patches I have the latest build... there is probably next to no diffrence with what I have and what you get with a new PC and I will tell you even upgrading a bloated HP Vista it runs nearly 2x as fast... this allows me to jump the settings in my games up... sometimes two or three levels higher.