You know there’s rumors that Apple is making a play for the big league and Microsoft might be in trouble. But if you look at the numbers it’s kind of like saying Hydroxycut was the solution to obesity and then looking at the percentages of the population that are overweight still. But hell even those numbers don’t go to show just how big of a lead Microsoft continues to have on a daily basis over it’s nearest desktop competitor.
The latest numbers from Microsoft are, and I quote, “the fastest annual revenue growth since 1999”. How big exactly, $60.42 billion dollars big in this past fiscal year, but that’s not the “big number” that matters. The Vista licenses sold since it’s launch 18 months ago is the number that’s astounding. For an OS that’s been poorly received and with XP still hanging on and people still buying XP in droves, the fact that Microsoft reported surpassing 140 Million licenses since last April.
Ok at the rate Vista is moving it will be several years before it catches up to XP, but then again XP was one of Microsoft’s biggest operating systems of all time. That’s a pretty major amount of software to have moved especially considering how poorly reviewed and received Vista has been.
Source: Microsoft
