60 Million Strong for Windows Vista
July 27, 2007 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
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Microsoft is rocking and all detractors can do is bad mouth the guys.
Microsoft has reported that they have shipped 60 million copies of Windows Vista and even if it does not equate to the actual number of installed copies, analysts say the numbers are still close to 60 million.
Wait, did I mention the 60 million excludes the 42 millions corporate licenses sold? No wonder Microsoft topped the $50 billion dollar for the first time this year.
Microsoft is boasting that Windows Vista is going to reach the 1 billion mark in the next twelve months.
For all the skeptics out there, do not listen to jealous and sour graping people griping about Windows Vista; instead, listen and look into maximing and boosting your productivity using the software.
After all, in the next twelve months; 1 billion affirmations should get you convinced.
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I particularly enjoy watching the ring go round and round while I carry out a simple task like opening and closing or minimising a web page with Windows Vista!!!
Carrying out the same tasks on Vista as I carried out on Windows XP a number of times the screen has froze.
When I can carry out simple tasks without it taking ages to complete, maybe I will be happy with it.
My frustration level with Vista grows daily, usually over simple things that worked in earlier versions of Windows. I’m always amazed at a new circuitous path to a feature and then see the same old Windows dialog box. This is improvement?
File search is the most recent frustration. I cannot find some files without buying a $40 3rd-party search tool. And I paid more for the Ultimate Vista? You’ve optimized the search, but it doesn’t always work. Everything is not indexed, but you pretend it is. How many casual users don’t have a clue that search may not find some files that really exist? But it’s fast now. Speed is more important than a correct answer for Microsoft.
Searching for E-mails in Outlook 2007 has similar hazards, and it’s hard to find the old search dialog box that still always works.
And the new Office user interface has many negatives, especially if you knew how to use older versions. For example, who thought of “Insert Quick Parts” in Word as a step in the path to Insert Fields? Thanks for this obscurity. I’m still not sure what a “Quick Part” is, but I must select it so I can insert a field. I can almost remember how to Insert Fields now after a few hours of Google searches. Or, at least I’m finding the solution faster using Google now.
And thanks for the obscurity of sending E-mail to others they cannot read. With Outlook 2007 it took me four E-mails to get an attachment sent to mom recently — and many Google searches in-between because of the obscure Micorosoft winmail.dat feature (I guess it’s not new, but it wasn’t fixed either). It’s a great feature for Microsoft to randomly send a winmail.dat file instead of the real attachments. This forces septuagenarian mom to upgrade her software – or forces me to go through my address book one-by-one to find the few that somehow have “Send using Outlook Rich Text Format”. It’s great to send friends and family E-mail with attachments they cannot read because of obscure Microsoft rules. It’s even better when this happens randomly.
So as one of the 60 million, thanks for all the new frustrations and the few ways to get help without paying.
luke neave — What’s your hardware specs.
Me — I’ll check on those details you provided. Thanks for letting us know.