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Story: Microsoft cuts Vista price to drive upgrades
How many licenses?
Microsofts' figure of over 100 million Vista licenses should not be taken at face value. MS would probably like to imply that there are 100 million people using vista. That's patently ridiculous.
A quick trawl of the web would imply that most people are wiping vista and installing XP on their new machines, businesses and home users alike.
Dropping the price wont make it any more popular, not even in these "Emerging Markets". I don't know what planet Microsoft are looking down from but these same "Emerging Markets" tend not to be blessed with many PC's with enough grunt to run Vista properly.
And what about the major OEM's?
They will have bought tens of thousands of licenses and have thousands left on the shelf, are they going to get any benefit from this price drop? My guess is no.
Microsoft need to stop flogging this particular dead horse and very quickly produce a stable, quick and useable OS to plug the gap that the discontinuation of XP is going to inevitably create.
Or maybe Michael Dell should chat up his old sparring partner Steve Jobs, get a version of Leopard that runs on Dell Hardware and cut Redmond out of the loop.
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