On March 26, Microsoft launched its internal product sales figures for the first month of Windows Vista. Microsoft mentioned it's sold in excessive of 20 million Vista licenses inside the 1st month of most recent Windows client's general availability. That figure includes Vista licenses preloaded on new PCs,
Office 2007 Standard Key, upgrades,
Office Professional Plus 2007 Key, copies offered through the Vista Express Upgrade program and full packaged prdouct marketed at retail between January 30 and February 28. According to Microsoft, that is more than double the first gross sales pace for Windows XP. "Windows Vista license revenue after one month of availability have already exceeded the total of Windows XP license sales within the earlier product’s first two months of availability,
Genuine Office 2010," according to the Microsoft data. "In January 2002,
Buy Office 2007, the company announced income of Windows XP licenses had exceeded 17 million after two months on the market." So what was that whole "Steve Ballmer warns Wall Street away from too-rosy Vista predictions" all about? Why warn if the company was on track to sell at double the pace of XP? Microsoft does this all the time, usually with earnings. If analysts underestimate you,
Windows 7 Activation, you'll always be above projections….