Vista selling really well, says Ballmer
Found on The Inquirer on Thursday, 22 May 2008
Steve Ballmer is in no way disappointed with Windows Vista. It is selling "incredibly well", he told a press conference in Herzeliya, Israel today.
"Vista sells on almost 100 per cent of all the new consumer PCs around the world," the Microsoft CEO proclaimed.
Whether Vista really is an upgrade, or just something of a weighty and awkward downgrade can still be argued, but Ballmer puts the problems down to the "tricky" balance between compatibility and security.
Of course it's on almost every PC. It comes preinstalled. The nice thing is that Vista comes off a PC way faster than it goes on. Upgrades from XP take hours, and sometimes it happens that you shut down a Vista PC the normal way, and when you boot it the next day, it just bluescreens (eben though the hardware is fine). It won't "sell" so well anymore in France for example, where a court recently ruled that users can return their preinstalled Windows license for a discount.