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Microsoft has best quarter ever thanks to Windows 7

article published on 22 July, 2010

Microsoft reported their latest quarterly earnings today and the company had its best quarter ever, thanks mainly to incredibly strong sales of the Windows 7 operating system. The software giant says they have sold about 175 million licenses of Window 7, making it easily the fastest selling operating system in the company's history. Furthermore, consumers and especially corporations ... [ read the full article ]

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slackdast
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_ 		23. July 2010 @ 20:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Let see, business model:

Own most the OS market. Check
Put out a really crappy OS: Vista. Check
Put out a better OS a couple years later: Windows 7. Check


Ya, i wonder why people would want to switch...


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Mez
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_ 		2. August 2010 @ 14:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That is because it is stable enough for corporations to buy it. I don't know of any big corporation that upgraded to Vista. They all stayed with XP. Now they will skip Vista and go right to 7.

Funny, M$ isn't whining about pirates stealing their OS. You would think pirates would want to seal a stable OS not a junk OS.
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soupcan
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_ 		2. August 2010 @ 17:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I still have Vista on one of my laptops and don't see anything wrong with it. If you say something is GREAT long enough people will start to believe you. Remember the experiment Microsoft did showing people this "cool new operating system" and they were in awe of it? It was Vista! To this day Vista still runs great with no problems. It got a bad rap!
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