Re: One pc, one copy of vista!!   

Yeh right check out the share price of both companies.Apple would love a few 
more versions of an OS like Vista to be released by MS. You know what they 
say "Rooster one day, Featherduster the next!"
"miss-information" wrote:

> "Mayor of R'lyeh"  wrote in message
> >...
> > Macs are the most popular PC's today. Sure there are more Windows PCs
> > still hanging on, but most people hate them.
> 
> 
> 
> Well, I don't know where your from, but here on earth there are now 665 
> million copies of XP installed worldwide, giving it 74.3% share of the PC 
> installed base. Other versions of Windows, not counting Vista, account for 
> another 190 million units, or 21.6% share.
> 
> The Mac, for all of Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) snazzy 
> advertising, has less than 1.6% share of the PC installed base. Linux, for 
> all of the millions of column inches devoted to its wondrous abilities holds 
> about 2.5% share. (All figures are from Gartner Dataquest.)
>  Microsoft’s achievements, making operating system software that works well 
> enough and is priced well enough, attracts 96% of the world’s PC users. 
> 
>

date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 23:35:01 -0700   author:   marty1961