Very well. It is you broke your own creditability.

Good luck.

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25********.com> wrote in message
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> <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=green]
>> 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=darkred]
>>> 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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