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| UPDATED: 2007-04-02 |
 Windows Vista Selling Well 
By: Nathan Weinberg 2007-04-02 Microsoft issued a press release saying that Windows Vista is seeing strong early sales, with 20 million licenses sold between January 30 and February 28. They say that number is double the first two months pace of Windows XP, which isnt entirely accurate, since they include free upgrades to Vista on PCs bought between 10/26/06 and 01/30/07, but one could at least argue that Vista is not being ignored by the marketplace, and will probably not be a failure (and in the land of 90% market share, thats all you need). The main thing: Vista is not a failure, not unimportant. It is moving into the marketplace as well as any successful Microsoft operating system has in the past (in other words, more like Windows 95 than Windows Me), so it cant be ignored. In two years, Vista will be the status quo, so developers need to get more serious than they have been about taking advantage of the newer technologies in Vista. In two years, more computers will be capable of running Sidebar Gadgets, WPF applications and many other things, than not, so ignoring them is just plain wasteful. Interestingly, while Vista Ultimate is not going to be the best-selling version of Vista, it is beating expectations. Thats pretty cool. I love the fact that I have Ultimate, and I wouldnt give it up for anything. All is not well for some aspects of Windows: HP is going to stop making dedicated Media Center set top box PCs, switching over to media streaming televisions. Oh, thats brilliant: Put computer technology in a TV, so I cant upgrade to a bigger set without losing those features, and am stuck with the same platform with all my devices, otherwise I become an idiot for ever investing in that in the first place. Ill never understand PC manufacturers who build the computer (or any aspect of it) into the screen. Its a bonehead idea, one that become glaringly stupid the second the user wants to upgrade. My parents have used the same 17-inch monitor since Windows 95, and they love it, but if they bought a Mac today, theyd pretty much be stuck with changing the screen every time they wanted a new PC. I gotta say, Ive been asking myself lately if I want to get a Mac, figuring I could dual-boot Vista and Mac OS and have a pretty good system, but I cant find one normal Mac on sale. Apple has three models, as far as I can tell: The underpowered un-upgradeable one, the one built into the screen, and the mega-expensive one. Wheres the normal Mac? Oh, and just to get these in somewhere (and to go positive after that MacRant), here are two Microsoft-related April Fools items: Microsoft Penguin Adoption 2007, and Long Zhengs site turns into a giant lovefest for MSs Tjeerd Hoek. Comments Tag: Microsoft , Windows Vista Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl
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