[BurbankKarl]

Microsoft says 140M Vista licenses sold

April 24, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that it has sold 140 million licenses of Windows Vista.

Colleen Healy, general manager of investor relations, made the statement during a conference call with Wall Street after posting its third-quarter earnings. The company pointed to strong PC sales for helping the much-maligned operating system achieve that number.

In its last update in January, Microsoft said it had sold 100 million licenses for Vista since the operating system’s launch in November 2006.

Healy did not offer details. But if she was being consistent with past Microsoft statements, the 140 million license figure excludes volume licenses sold to corporations. Volume licenses give corporations the right to use whatever version of Windows they want.

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But if she was being consistent with past Microsoft statements, the 140 million license figure excludes volume licenses sold to corporations.

140 million is mostly due to Windows momentum, as for about 90% of people if you buy a computer you end up with Windows, and thus Vista by default. And from what I've heard corporate uptake of Vista isn't going well. Most prefer to stay with XP.

I hope the next version of Windows is much better. We can only rely on Jobs' energy to come up with better ideas to produce an OS for so long. We need real technical competition.