88 Million Copies, What can you say?

There is just so much bad publicity about Windows Vista that so many people keep on bashing the latest operating system from being incompatible with devices, unstable, too pricey and so on. Nonethless, Microsoft reports they have already shipped 88 million copies of Windows Vista — 88 Million is no joke.

Microsoft is on a tear selling 20 million copies in the first month, 40 million copies in the first 100 days, 60 million copies in July and now 80 million copies.

Steve Ballmer is right with his positive notes on Windows Vista despite what the media says, he definitely has reason to be positive as Windows Vista helped them get US$13.76 billion for quarter ending Sept. 30 which is 27 percent bigger from last year’s same quarter.

Other statistics as reported by PCWorld include:

– A release candidate for Windows Server 2008 has been downloaded more than one million times in its first month;

– Unit and revenue growth of SQL Server were both up more than 15 percent;

– Halo 3 generated $330 million in revenue;

– Xbox 360 console unit sales increased 90 percent, driven by a price cut in August and Halo 3-related demand;

– Client revenues, including those for Vista, are expected to grow 62-64 percent year-over-year in the current fiscal Q2, or 13-14 percent excluding certain revenue deferrals in the prior year;

– Microsoft Business Division revenues, including those for Office, are expected to grow 15-16 percent in Q2 after normalizing for impact of technology guarantees and pre-shipment deferrals in the prior year;

– A beta version of Office Communications Server has been downloaded 80,000 times;

– There are 10,000 customers in the Customer Technical Preview (CTP) program for PerformancePoint Server, its new business intelligence offering.