[TomGuy]

Ballmer notes the difference in scale between the two companies: “We sell 270 millions PCs a year

Ouch!

There was an article earlier this week that indicated MS has sold 140 million copies of VISTA, mostly on new pc's.

If they sell 270 million pc's (and OS) per year that is a drastically low number of VISTA sales. It also means that 130 million of those pc's had NON-VISTA OS.

[boogerbear]

For what’s still a basically new OS with mostly bad press having over 50% of sold hardware having it isn’t bad. And it’s not like the didn’t make money on the other 40 odd %, they had XP or 2003.