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Windows XP sales rocket to 46+ million

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lazygamer:
Ok first do an IP check on him.

I personally feel zombie is a kindred spirit who desires a non-MS future, but isn't feeling very hopeful due to all the people that Microsoft keeps enslaving... Unless I fell for that one hook, like and sinker.  :(

jtpenrod:

quote:Damn, there are more people using Windows XP than there are linux(all distros) and MacOSX users combined. ;P
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What the article says is that there were 46 million licenses sold. That's a whole 'nother kettle of fish. Due to the extortion of the OEMs, get a new system, get XP. That counts for a license sale. However, there is no guarantee that XP actually stayed on those machines. My neighbor bought his family a new Sony Vaio that came with XP several months ago. Since then, he and his wife became so disgusted with it that they finally decided to take my advice. Perhaps her losing a report she needed to submit for the last class she needed to pass for graduation had something to do with it?   ;)  

Losing two week's worth of work, having to stay up all night getting ready for an 8:00AM class, really puts these things in perspective. After that, they asked me to install Mandrake for them: completely, no dual booting, a complete 'Drake install. So make that 45,999,999 XP users    
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[ August 02, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]

ravuya:
Yeah, but users of other operating systems are more intelligent. Remember, there are more cockroaches than humans but that doesn't mean they're any brighter or more correct than us  

creedon:
Re: MS- inflated numbers.
Sounds a lot like General Westmoreland's body counts in Vietnam; they were bullshit too.

voidmain:
Also note the subject says "sales", not "copies currently in use".  All M$ cares about is sales anyway.  They don't care if anyone uses their crap as long as they can sell a luser a copy.

[ August 02, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

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