Vista sales slow to a trickle
LAST WEEK, Microsoft appeared to be opening the Champers over its record profits, however the spin aimed to conceal what appears to be a slowing of sales of its Vista operating system.
According to Electronista, which had a detailed look at the figures, the sales rate of Microsoft's Windows Vista is gradually slowing down.
The Vole only shipped about 28 million copies of Vista in the latest quarter ended September, or 9.3 million copies per month.
While Volish spinners emphasised a 27 per cent growth in business licenses and said that many home users were buying the more lucrative Vista Home Premium or Ultimate editions, they covered up the fact that the was a decline from the 10 million per month sales reported early in summer.
In fact Vista sales were only much cop in the first three months after its January release. In those heady days Microsoft flogged 20 million copies per month thanks to a wave of early adopters and users waiting for Vista to replace older systems. µ
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It really is a matter of choosing to see things from different angles isnt it?

As many things micro$oft you could say; it's not a bug, it's a feature.
This article is like complaining that your pint glass is 10% empty after you've taken a long, dep draught from it. 

In gross round numbers, "slow" Vista sales 9.3 million copies per month (say, 100 million per year) at $100 per copy translates to about $10 billion per year. Not bad for a product with no raw materials, even if it did cost a few billion to produce originally.
I know you guys hate the Vole, and Vista especially, but c'mon! Vista sales slow by 7%, and you call the remaining 93% a trickle? The truth of the news release is that Microsoft is doing very well right now, whether we like it or not.
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While i agree that the sales slumping after a few mnonths is hardly a portentious omen, 9..3 million copies a month is still a good number, more telling is that a lot of the early adopters are switching back. Likewise, there are a disturbingly large number of people buying Vista machines (due to a lack of choice) and immediately installing their existing XP right over the top, just to make the damn thing work. 

Microosfot support of vista and DX10 has left a lot of people with software that is far less usable that thier 5 year old opertating system, and far less effective for many of its purported strengths. 

Not to say that its going to stay that way, once MS works out the major bugs and compatability issues it will likely be fine - but the only time that Vista is necessary is when MS have paid for a peice of software to be "vista only" - other than that it likely runs better on an XP machine.
"27 per cent growth in business licenses" of what?
Since business aren't so willing to upgrade, 27% of a sure small figure means nearly nothing instead of hype. Even if a company wants some XP Pro licenses they are likely forced to buy Vista with a downgrade to XP: they still count as a Vista sales. If a company wants some new OEM PC, they are mostly forced to have Vista even if it will be erased shortly after for a Linux.
It's obvious that retail sales of Vista are lower than its OEM pre-installed counterpart. Since the PC market is usually slowing down before christmas, so is Vista.
And how many of thos 9.3mil per month were bundled on new systems and quickly removed by the end user?

IMHO Microsoft needs to do 2 thinks if they want Vista to catch on.

1) Loose the DRM. It's a joke anyway, and doesn't stop the pirates...

2) Stop rejecting certification ofdriver and software packages from hardware makers. Another observation that these items are being rejected either due to DRM concerns, or the implementation of non MS proprietary features. 

Heck, they do that, I might re-load the copy that came with the Wife's new Dell. Until then, It's still Win-XP or Linux for this PC user/builder.

LoCatus
As much as I hate the VOLE, this is a non story.. 10% drop in shipments after 9 months? Thats at Retail

I can't imagine what the OEM market must be like (the real gravey)
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Surely buying a business Vista license doesnt really mean alot? The way I understand it you can run XP Pro on a Vista Business license. I know my organisations licensing company won't sell you XP anymore, they sell Vista licenses with rollback. If they didnt let us rollback we wouldnt be dealing with them.
Tried Vista and it's so bad that I went back to XP. If M$ doesn't remove all the filler in Vista, XP will be my last M$ OS. I already know what the answer will be from Bill so I'm looking to switch to either MAC or linux. I feel bad for the people buying Vista for the eye candy and finding out just how bad it really is.
Of course they are making money: They force most customers into buying PC's w/Vista, and then those customers are buying an additional copy of XP & wiping Vista back off. Let's see, how many customers would need to buy double before M$ profits would go up ? . . .
And if you exclude all the systems being bought with the intention to get that particular hardware. But not with the intention of EVER running the preinstalled Vista.

If you do this figures would probably be less.
Hey ULTIE_TOM ^

How much $$$ Microsoft pays you to advertise Vista

Vista is a resource hog and with severe bad compatibility...

XP SP2 just does NOT has these problems

check some forums before you open your mouth next time

Go kiss Bill Gates feet at the meantime
"9.3 million copies per month."

Only 9,3 million per month?!? Sweet Jesus, thats only twice the entire Mac market out there!
Surely Microsoft is on its way to chapter 11!
We certainly can't fault your enthusiasm, ULTIE_TOM. 

Counting chickens in a world as diverse as ours though is more than just over-rated, it is just plain blinkered.
On top of the decline in sales, the fraction of sales of Vista versus the sales of PCs is pretty sad. The world makes/sells more than 250 million PCs annually. If a monopoly can only force retailers to put it on 88 million in three quarters of a year, the monopoly is on its last legs. They could have put Vista on 187 million PCs and scored less than 50%. That is a failing grade in most places except sales-hype-land. They cannot compete against an obsolete OS like XP from 2001. They cannot compete against modern OS like MacOS, BSDs and GNU/Linux.