[SmokingJoe]

Vista actually sold faster than XP did. Only thing is, the PC market was much bigger when Vista came out than when XP came out. Of course lots of firms chose to stick with XP, which in turn is going to make XP to Win 7 upgrade sales pretty high, plus the super low $30 price for students is going to make win 7 an impulse buy and boost sales too.

[wombtotomb]

Is that $30 price only for college students, or can homeschooling students enrolled in an online school/college get it as well?

[Sir Clancelot]

First Millenium, then Vista, perhaps MSFT should offer 7 for free, sort of as an apology to the PC world.

[brivette]

I don’t think you can go from xp to win 7, I’m not an expert.

[Gondring]

Vista actually sold faster than XP did.

You fell for the MS marketing, it seems. They rolled all the "PLEASE let me get XP instead of Vista!!" sales into Vista. If you bought XP, they counted it as "Vista with XP option" to inflate Vista numbers.