<I could be wrong, but if I remembered correctly, the 90 million copies are
"sales" made by the company,>

The last time I checked I am not a sales person, I am running Windows Vista
on a desktop and laptop, my brother is also running Windows Vista. So I
guess if you minus those three computers, 89,999,997 copies of Vista still
have not been delivered, sold or preloaded on new systems?

I don't think so.
--
Andre
Blog: [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
[url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry[/url]


"xfile" <coucou@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:OtlukJQKIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I could be wrong, but if I remembered correctly, the 90 million copies are
> "sales" made by the company, in which, I will assume some (??) have yet to
> be delivered and installed.
>
> It is a common practice for OEMs to negotiate multiyear contracts and to
> book sales in advance for preferred prices and supports, but not all those
> sales can be counted as the current year's revenue, and not all those will
> be delivered in the first year. Thus, it's questionable for counting it
> as the install base.
>
> I don't have those reports around me now but that's what I remembered.
>
> It is not my intension to getting into the nonsense OS debate, but I just
> wish to point out something that I have read several times in this
> newsgroup that could be misleading. Again, welcome to correct me if I am
> wrong.
>
>
>
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25********.com> wrote in message
> news:uOckfoNKIHA.6008@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> So, today marks 1 year since I have been running Windows Vista, check out
>> the link to the blog entry I just posted about thoughts and reflections
>> over the past year about Microsoft's latest desktop OS:
>> [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!16644.entry[/url]
>>
>> How has Vista treated you? :)
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry[/url]
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