Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retail

[url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1079[/url]


PS.
80% of that was formated and XP installed
10% have switched to linux
8% remain on vista because they are unable to change the OS
1% bought vista but are not using it yet
1% use vista and like it so much that they come in here and tell everybody how great it is! LOL

that last 1% are dorks aka Vista Boys

" non flammable on XP" <not@say.here> wrote in message news:478223c9$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retail

[url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1079[/url]


PS.
80% of that was formated and XP installed
10% have switched to linux
8% remain on vista because they are unable to change the OS
1% bought vista but are not using it yet
1% use vista and like it so much that they come in here and tell everybody how great it is! LOL

that last 1% are dorks aka Vista Boys


You are losing your battle against Vista. Don't expect sympathy. You won't get any.

--
Mike Hall - MVP
[url]http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx[/url]

lol you must be crazy...

Me in a battle with vista? and how would this battle be won from me just posting on a newsgroup?
You seriously think I would take on a world wide company with billions???

I don't want to fight Microsoft on the contrary I want MS to make better and better products. But I want to make sure everyone understands in here at least that vista is a pile of poo poo...

deny it you may.. but more and more people are telling you the same thing.. arnet they? be honest! lol


"Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.com> wrote in message news:%23jyKcaTUIHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
" non flammable on XP" <not@say.here> wrote in message news:478223c9$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retail

[url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1079[/url]


PS.
80% of that was formated and XP installed
10% have switched to linux
8% remain on vista because they are unable to change the OS
1% bought vista but are not using it yet
1% use vista and like it so much that they come in here and tell everybody how great it is! LOL

that last 1% are dorks aka Vista Boys


You are losing your battle against Vista. Don't expect sympathy. You won't get any.

--
Mike Hall - MVP
[url]http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx[/url]

(YAWN)

<plonk>

It is up to an individual to make it a pile of poo poo. You've made your
best (locally). Don't generalize. For me XP was a pile of poo poo when I
lost my Internet connection on my XP partition where I had my development
set up. At least 6 months of my work was lost because NOBODY could restore
it. I called DELL and they walked me thru all possible manuals and nothing
worked. They changed the motherboard, they usual answer to software
hang-ups, and it did not help either. From my past experience I knew that
installing a new clean XP is a total nightmare. It takes at least a week to
collect all drivers.

I decided to switch to Vista. I must admit I've had really hard time at the
beginning. I cursed Vista too but the dark past of XP was much worse. I
could not transfer some of my development to Vista because VFP9 does not
seem to be that eagerly supported. It may be on he way out. One cannot blame
MS for that.

In the end I have now Vista on 3 machines, may be getting the fourth one
even today but definitely tomorrow. I still have some XP on some partitions
and even Win2K on one but soon it all be Vista, Vista, Vista, nothing else
because thru trials and errors I and reading other people's posts, not
inflammable posts like yours, but constructive posts where people try to
resolve problems, I finally realized that it is a far more superior OS, but
it is not for everyone.

You may be too old for it, you may be lacking in IQ, you may be an
antisocial character by nature, God knows. If you are so mad with Vista, go
to XP forums and wallow in that old crapppp.

You think people here are idiots. We have out own Vista in our computers.
You are poo poo.


" non flammable on XP" <not@say.here> wrote in message
news:4782372f@newsgate.x-privat.org...
lol you must be crazy...

Me in a battle with vista? and how would this battle be won from me just
posting on a newsgroup?
You seriously think I would take on a world wide company with billions???

I don't want to fight Microsoft on the contrary I want MS to make better and
better products. But I want to make sure everyone understands in here at
least that vista is a pile of poo poo...

deny it you may.. but more and more people are telling you the same thing..
arnet they? be honest! lol


"Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.com> wrote in message
news:%23jyKcaTUIHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
" non flammable on XP" <not@say.here> wrote in message
news:478223c9$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retail

[url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1079[/url]


PS.
80% of that was formated and XP installed
10% have switched to linux
8% remain on vista because they are unable to change the OS
1% bought vista but are not using it yet
1% use vista and like it so much that they come in here and tell everybody
how great it is! LOL

that last 1% are dorks aka Vista Boys


You are losing your battle against Vista. Don't expect sympathy. You won't
get any.

--
Mike Hall - MVP
[url]http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx[/url]

I'm afraid that's wishful thinking on your part.
There was a report today that Dell is selling
Vista at a 7 to 1 ratio vs XP. On the one hand,
it's amazing that 1 out of 8 Dell customers is
actually going to the trouble to find the older XP.
On the other hand, that's still 7 out of 8 who
probably don't even know about the Vista
controversy. Those are the ones who will show
up here asking, "Why won't it let me _____?" :)

The general concensus seems to be that business
is strongly avoiding Vista, with less than 1% uptake
at this point, but that retail PCs, as one would
expect, are mainly selling with Vista. In 1-3 years
everyone will have to accept Vista as a common
MS OS, like it or not.
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]
Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retail

[url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1079[/url]


PS.
80% of that was formated and XP installed
10% have switched to linux
8% remain on vista because they are unable to change the OS
1% bought vista but are not using it yet
1% use vista and like it so much that they come in here and tell everybody
how great it is! LOL

that last 1% are dorks aka Vista Boys

You say that installing a new clean XP is a total nightmare. I've done this a many times, and
although I wouldn't go so far as to call it a total nightmare, it's not always straightforward I
agree. That said, I've had very few problems with XP drivers.

In what way has this been improved with Vista?


"alexB" <alexb@comcast.net> wrote in message news:eFiAzCUUIHA.5980@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
It is up to an individual to make it a pile of poo poo. You've made your
best (locally). Don't generalize. For me XP was a pile of poo poo when I
lost my Internet connection on my XP partition where I had my development
set up. At least 6 months of my work was lost because NOBODY could restore
it. I called DELL and they walked me thru all possible manuals and nothing
worked. They changed the motherboard, they usual answer to software
hang-ups, and it did not help either. From my past experience I knew that
installing a new clean XP is a total nightmare. It takes at least a week to
collect all drivers.

I decided to switch to Vista. I must admit I've had really hard time at the
beginning. I cursed Vista too but the dark past of XP was much worse. I
could not transfer some of my development to Vista because VFP9 does not
seem to be that eagerly supported. It may be on he way out. One cannot blame
MS for that.

In the end I have now Vista on 3 machines, may be getting the fourth one
even today but definitely tomorrow. I still have some XP on some partitions
and even Win2K on one but soon it all be Vista, Vista, Vista, nothing else
because thru trials and errors I and reading other people's posts, not
inflammable posts like yours, but constructive posts where people try to
resolve problems, I finally realized that it is a far more superior OS, but
it is not for everyone.

You may be too old for it, you may be lacking in IQ, you may be an
antisocial character by nature, God knows. If you are so mad with Vista, go
to XP forums and wallow in that old crapppp.

You think people here are idiots. We have out own Vista in our computers.
You are poo poo.


" non flammable on XP" <not@say.here> wrote in message
news:4782372f@newsgate.x-privat.org...
lol you must be crazy...

Me in a battle with vista? and how would this battle be won from me just
posting on a newsgroup?
You seriously think I would take on a world wide company with billions???

I don't want to fight Microsoft on the contrary I want MS to make better and
better products. But I want to make sure everyone understands in here at
least that vista is a pile of poo poo...

deny it you may.. but more and more people are telling you the same thing..
arnet they? be honest! lol


"Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.com> wrote in message
news:%23jyKcaTUIHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
" non flammable on XP" <not@say.here> wrote in message
news:478223c9$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retail

[url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1079[/url]


PS.
80% of that was formated and XP installed
10% have switched to linux
8% remain on vista because they are unable to change the OS
1% bought vista but are not using it yet
1% use vista and like it so much that they come in here and tell everybody
how great it is! LOL

that last 1% are dorks aka Vista Boys


You are losing your battle against Vista. Don't expect sympathy. You won't
get any.

--
Mike Hall - MVP
[url]http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx[/url]

>At least 6 months of my work was lost because NOBODY could restore
it.

Alex, dont blame others for your own errors!

I backup even hourly when I am doing work that I would not want to lose..

some times even more frequently than that.. I NEVER have important data only
at one location EVER!

on important stuff I triple backup on different media! I have learned this
fast after I lost my first work..

never trust any computer with your data.. every computer can fail. Period.

There are people who know how to restore data even if the hard drive was in
a fire or
inside water for a week (actual stories)...

I have restored data from various machines that others thought were done
for..

its all about know how.

And I know for sure that XP is the best OS microsoft has ever made.. Vista
is a pile of crap


"alexB" <alexb@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:eFiAzCUUIHA.5980@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> It is up to an individual to make it a pile of poo poo. You've made your
> best (locally). Don't generalize. For me XP was a pile of poo poo when I
> lost my Internet connection on my XP partition where I had my development
> set up. At least 6 months of my work was lost because NOBODY could restore
> it. I called DELL and they walked me thru all possible manuals and nothing
> worked. They changed the motherboard, they usual answer to software
> hang-ups, and it did not help either. From my past experience I knew that
> installing a new clean XP is a total nightmare. It takes at least a week
> to collect all drivers.
>
> I decided to switch to Vista. I must admit I've had really hard time at
> the beginning. I cursed Vista too but the dark past of XP was much worse.
> I could not transfer some of my development to Vista because VFP9 does not
> seem to be that eagerly supported. It may be on he way out. One cannot
> blame MS for that.
>
> In the end I have now Vista on 3 machines, may be getting the fourth one
> even today but definitely tomorrow. I still have some XP on some
> partitions and even Win2K on one but soon it all be Vista, Vista, Vista,
> nothing else because thru trials and errors I and reading other people's
> posts, not inflammable posts like yours, but constructive posts where
> people try to resolve problems, I finally realized that it is a far more
> superior OS, but it is not for everyone.
>
> You may be too old for it, you may be lacking in IQ, you may be an
> antisocial character by nature, God knows. If you are so mad with Vista,
> go to XP forums and wallow in that old crapppp.
>
> You think people here are idiots. We have out own Vista in our computers.
> You are poo poo.
>
>
> " non flammable on XP" <not@say.here> wrote in message
> news:4782372f@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> lol you must be crazy...
>
> Me in a battle with vista? and how would this battle be won from me just
> posting on a newsgroup?
> You seriously think I would take on a world wide company with billions???
>
> I don't want to fight Microsoft on the contrary I want MS to make better
> and better products. But I want to make sure everyone understands in here
> at least that vista is a pile of poo poo...
>
> deny it you may.. but more and more people are telling you the same
> thing.. arnet they? be honest! lol
>
>
> "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.com> wrote in message
> news:%23jyKcaTUIHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> " non flammable on XP" <not@say.here> wrote in message
> news:478223c9$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retail
>
> [url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1079[/url]
>
>
> PS.
> 80% of that was formated and XP installed
> 10% have switched to linux
> 8% remain on vista because they are unable to change the OS
> 1% bought vista but are not using it yet
> 1% use vista and like it so much that they come in here and tell everybody
> how great it is! LOL
>
> that last 1% are dorks aka Vista Boys
>
>
> You are losing your battle against Vista. Don't expect sympathy. You won't
> get any.
>
> --
> Mike Hall - MVP
> [url]http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx[/url][/color]

Yes.. I agree with all that you say...

I have seen that what you say reflects exactly
what is going on... and how things will evolve...

MS has created a network of windows version pushing that its almost
impossible to escape..

Gates is a genious in creating this... thats his brainchild not windows
itself.. it could have been any product.



"mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@mindXXspring.com> wrote in message
news:en$TzXUUIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> I'm afraid that's wishful thinking on your part.
> There was a report today that Dell is selling
> Vista at a 7 to 1 ratio vs XP. On the one hand,
> it's amazing that 1 out of 8 Dell customers is
> actually going to the trouble to find the older XP.
> On the other hand, that's still 7 out of 8 who
> probably don't even know about the Vista
> controversy. Those are the ones who will show
> up here asking, "Why won't it let me _____?" :)
>
> The general concensus seems to be that business
> is strongly avoiding Vista, with less than 1% uptake
> at this point, but that retail PCs, as one would
> expect, are mainly selling with Vista. In 1-3 years
> everyone will have to accept Vista as a common
> MS OS, like it or not.
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>>[/color][/color]
> Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retail
>
> [url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1079[/url]
>
>
> PS.
> 80% of that was formated and XP installed
> 10% have switched to linux
> 8% remain on vista because they are unable to change the OS
> 1% bought vista but are not using it yet
> 1% use vista and like it so much that they come in here and tell everybody
> how great it is! LOL
>
> that last 1% are dorks aka Vista Boys
>
>[/color]

In vista you start the install then you go for a nap.. then you go for
vacation,
then you decide a trip around the world would be nice..
by the time you are back vista-king-of-bloat will have been installed.. LOL




"Jon" <.> wrote in message news:%230DVpeUUIHA.5524@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> You say that installing a new clean XP is a total nightmare. I've done
> this a many times, and
> although I wouldn't go so far as to call it a total nightmare, it's not
> always straightforward I
> agree. That said, I've had very few problems with XP drivers.
>
> In what way has this been improved with Vista?
>
>
> "alexB" <alexb@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:eFiAzCUUIHA.5980@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> It is up to an individual to make it a pile of poo poo. You've made your
> best (locally). Don't generalize. For me XP was a pile of poo poo when I
> lost my Internet connection on my XP partition where I had my development
> set up. At least 6 months of my work was lost because NOBODY could restore
> it. I called DELL and they walked me thru all possible manuals and nothing
> worked. They changed the motherboard, they usual answer to software
> hang-ups, and it did not help either. From my past experience I knew that
> installing a new clean XP is a total nightmare. It takes at least a week
> to
> collect all drivers.
>
> I decided to switch to Vista. I must admit I've had really hard time at
> the
> beginning. I cursed Vista too but the dark past of XP was much worse. I
> could not transfer some of my development to Vista because VFP9 does not
> seem to be that eagerly supported. It may be on he way out. One cannot
> blame
> MS for that.
>
> In the end I have now Vista on 3 machines, may be getting the fourth one
> even today but definitely tomorrow. I still have some XP on some
> partitions
> and even Win2K on one but soon it all be Vista, Vista, Vista, nothing else
> because thru trials and errors I and reading other people's posts, not
> inflammable posts like yours, but constructive posts where people try to
> resolve problems, I finally realized that it is a far more superior OS,
> but
> it is not for everyone.
>
> You may be too old for it, you may be lacking in IQ, you may be an
> antisocial character by nature, God knows. If you are so mad with Vista,
> go
> to XP forums and wallow in that old crapppp.
>
> You think people here are idiots. We have out own Vista in our computers.
> You are poo poo.
>
>
> " non flammable on XP" <not@say.here> wrote in message
> news:4782372f@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> lol you must be crazy...
>
> Me in a battle with vista? and how would this battle be won from me just
> posting on a newsgroup?
> You seriously think I would take on a world wide company with billions???
>
> I don't want to fight Microsoft on the contrary I want MS to make better
> and
> better products. But I want to make sure everyone understands in here at
> least that vista is a pile of poo poo...
>
> deny it you may.. but more and more people are telling you the same
> thing..
> arnet they? be honest! lol
>
>
> "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.com> wrote in message
> news:%23jyKcaTUIHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> " non flammable on XP" <not@say.here> wrote in message
> news:478223c9$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> Microsoft: 100 million copies of Vista sold at retail
>
> [url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1079[/url]
>
>
> PS.
> 80% of that was formated and XP installed
> 10% have switched to linux
> 8% remain on vista because they are unable to change the OS
> 1% bought vista but are not using it yet
> 1% use vista and like it so much that they come in here and tell everybody
> how great it is! LOL
>
> that last 1% are dorks aka Vista Boys
>
>
> You are losing your battle against Vista. Don't expect sympathy. You won't
> get any.
>
> --
> Mike Hall - MVP
> [url]http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx[/url]
>
>[/color]

non flammable on XP wrote:
[color=blue]
> lol you must be crazy...[/color]

Ahahaha...of all the people who post to ng's...of all the lunies,
wackos, morons, idiots and just plain'o losers...you my friend are at
the very top of that heap of sh*theads...LOL!
Frank

I think you are jealous because I post interesting and original stuff..

while all you do is whine by adding stupid comments after other peoples
posts..

what is it with you anyway? I am sure you have made rules to mark my posts
so you can give smarty pants good for nothing replies to them...

You are using thunderbird right? what color have you made my posts?

I like Green or red please...


"Frank" <fb@spamm.nrz> wrote in message
news:OxqsmwUUIHA.5264@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> non flammable on XP wrote:
>[color=green]
>> lol you must be crazy...[/color]
>
> Ahahaha...of all the people who post to ng's...of all the lunies, wackos,
> morons, idiots and just plain'o losers...you my friend are at the very top
> of that heap of sh*theads...LOL!
> Frank
>[/color]

"Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@mvps.com> wrote in
news:#jyKcaTUIHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:
[color=blue]
> " non flammable on XP" <not@say.here> wrote in message
> news:478223c9$1@newsgate.x-privat.org... Microsoft: 100 million
> copies of Vista sold at retail
>
> [url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1079[/url]
>[/color]

<SNIP>
[color=blue]
> You are losing your battle against Vista. Don't expect sympathy. You
> won't get any.[/color]

Mike, what I see in this whole thing is that NOW, the 100 million number
syas it is 100,000,000 *RETAIL* licenses.....PLUS another 40 million for
volume licenses.

Or at least, that is what THAT article says.

It's obvious that article is either wrong, or MS is really trying to BS
everyone.

There's really no argument that the #1 way people obtain Vista is pre-
installed from an OEM.

non flammable on XP wrote:[color=blue]
> I think you are jealous because I post interesting and original stuff..[/color]

I think you are the jealous loser. You don't have Vista. You don't know
anything at all about Vista and you are obviously an attentions starved
POS idiot!
Stick to cardboard space ships capin' crunch.
And get some medical help immediately.

....You are using thunderbird right?

Wrong you fukkin dumb ass!
You're not that bright are you?
Frank

Frank wrote:[color=blue]
> non flammable on XP wrote:[color=green]
>> I think you are jealous because I post interesting and original stuff..[/color]
>
> I think you are the jealous loser. You don't have Vista. You don't know
> anything at all about Vista and you are obviously an attentions starved
> POS idiot!
> Stick to cardboard space ships capin' crunch.
> And get some medical help immediately.
>
> ...You are using thunderbird right?
>
> Wrong you fukkin dumb ass!
> You're not that bright are you?
> Frank[/color]

Yeah, old Frankie boy is using the Mozilla Suite, something that hasn't
been supported in ages. It is ironic that Mozilla is Open Source when
you consider how Frank LIES so much about Open Source and is so jealous
of Open Source Linux users that he has to post the following crap every
single bloody day:


Who cares about what you like or dislike or support...you're a nobody.
Got it? You are a nobody...no one cares about your stupid life or your
bullsh*t diatribes about anything.
Get lost you jerk.
Frank, MPWVG, Dec 19, 2007

You're one sick lying fukk!!! No one...NO ONE believes you!!!
You are an admitted liar...a linux troll...an atheist and proly a commie
bastard and a real loser of a jerk.
Get lost!
Frank, MPWVG, Dec. 19, 2007

Of course it will. But then again, you don't have Vista so you don't
really know now do you mr liar, mr atheist, mr commie bastard.
LOL!!!
Frank, MPWVG, Dec. 20, 2007

What a childishly immature POS lying as*hole you are.
Frank, MPWVG, Dec. 23, 2007

jake wrote:


....just his usual delusional bullsh*t from some unknown blogger.
Get a real life you idiot!
Frank, MPWVG, Jan 2, 2008

You're infested with Vista demons capin' crunch. Is that a result of not
taking your meds or are you just naturally that fukkin stupid?
Frank, MPWVG, Jan 2, 2008

Who the fukk do you think you are...mr liar, mr atheist, mr commie
bastard....
Go screw yourself!
Frank, MPWVG, Jan 1, 2008

flambe wrote:

....nothing but a bunch of uninformed lies and bullsh*t.
Grow up as*hole and face the fact that you're STUPID!
Frank, MPWVG, Dec 31, 2007

Wrong again you POS lying linux loser.
Get a life you moron.
Frank, MPWVG, Jan 1, 2008

You need to stop making a fool out of yourself mr liar.
You are a known troll and a pathological liar.
Get lost you stupid POS moron loser.
Frank, MPWVG, Jan 2, 2008

Ahahaha...of all the people who post to ng's...of all the lunies,
wackos, morons, idiots and just plain'o losers...you my friend are at
the very top of that heap of sh*theads...LOL!
Frank, MPWVG, Jan 5, 2008

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