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July 26, 2007 at 12:01 AM EDT
It can’t be a nice feeling when one of your biggest customers says mean things about your product, even when your name is Microsoft and you are one of the world’s largest software companies.
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looked up from his morning cup of coffee at the most recent data provided by web traffic company Net Applications and yelled, “Erroneous! Erroneous. Erroneous on both counts.”
Apparently Net Applications is claiming that Windows Vista is eroding Mac OS X sales, based on the kinds of operating systems that its “Hitlink” software tracks.
The problem with the data, according to Krazit, is that Net Applications only monitors 400,000 websites, most of which are small/medium business sites and that the vast majority of computers sold come with Vista preloaded. Net Applications claimed that Vista usage shot up in February, right about the time that Vista first started shipping on most new computers sold.
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Windows Vista Sales Show Slow, But Steady Growth By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
Wed Jul 25, 10:33 AM ET
Microsoft
finally got some good news about Windows Vista. Its new operating system is now more popular than Apple's Mac OS. According to the latest figures from market watcher Net Applications, 4.52% of all computers connected to the Internet were running Windows Vista in June, up from 3.74% in May. By contrast, 3.52% of computers were running the Mac OS, down from 3.95% the previous month.
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Microsoft’s anti-piracy effort may be annoying to some Windows users, but it has notched a big win catching the bad guys.
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that the FBI and Chinese Public Security Bureau
busted a syndicate selling and distributing more than $2 billion in counterfeit Microsoft software
. The WGA’s role in the bust highlights
the returns
that are possible with the program.
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“The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista.” That’s what Gianfranco Lanci, the Italian president and CEO of Acer, Taiwan’s biggest computer company, told the German edition of the Financial Times on Monday. “Also, that won’t change in the second half-year,” he added. (
ftd.de
).
Lanci’s main complaint is that people aren’t buying new PCs to run Vista, and that it has had less of an impact on sales than previous versions of Windows.
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Windows Vista Market Share Rises, Mac OS Share Flat By Antone Gonsalves
InformationWeek
Tue Jul 24, 2:18 PM ET Since its release in January,
Microsoft
's
Windows Vista operating system
has steadily gained market share at the expense of
Windows XP
and 2000, while the Mac OS has shown no significant market gain, according to a Web metrics firm.
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Microsoft’s newest operating system, Vista is approaching OSX in terms of market share. This should come as no surprise since there are millions on millions more PCs than there are Macs but still, Vista is now installed on at least 5% of PCs meaning it is only 1% away from topping OSX and only 1.1% away from passing it.
Though things are not all good with Vista as XP is still sold, many OEMs are receiving requests from customers that Vista be erased off the computer and replaced with XP, which is a headache in and of its own right. Windows XP is still quite popular having dropped from from 84.33 percent in February to 81.94 percent in June.
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Just a day after analyst firm Net Applications released figures showing that Windows Vista now
enjoys a 5 percent share
of the online market, Acer president Gianfranco Lanci criticized Microsoft’s new OS saying, “the whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista.”
Despite the fact that if Vista’s adoption trend continues, it should pass Mac OS X by the end of August Lanci is critical of the system.
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Broader monitoring capabilities result in improved network performance and stability for ecommerce. Portland, Ore. and Fuerth, Germany (
PRWEB
) July 24, 2007 — Paessler, the network monitoring company, announces Webserver Stress Tool for Windows Vista, a new version of the company's HTTP-client/server test application that adds full support for Microsoft's latest operating system. By simulating HTTP requests from hundreds and thousands of users, Windows Vista users can utilize Paessler's Webserver Stress Tool to test web server performance under normal and excessive loads and easily pinpoint critical issues in Web servers that may prevent optimal performance.
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