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Story: Running the numbers on Vista sales

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Posted by: ator1940 (Wednesday 12 September 2007, 2:24 PM)

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239 million PCs were sold worldwide

And none of these buyers had a choice of buying a pc without an OS. How about running the numbers on people who bought motherboards and processors to build their own systems? I have built 3 systems in the last month and none of them have windows OS. Numbers can be be manipulated.

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