Vista Failing - NOT

[genec57]

So much bandwidth has been devoted to how Vista is failing, etc.
Microsoft and the stock market don't seem to think so.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070426/bs_nm/microsoft_results_dc_4

 

[pkellmey]

I agree that Vista has been shown to be a success in the market (whether that's a good/bad thing is up to you). However, it is highly questionable whether their revenue increase is tied to Vista or not. After any product release, MS has been known to play funny numbers to show the latest profit for their product even if you cannot tie them together directly.

 

[riser]

Its a renewal of the VLK/Service Agreements that would boost up MS's profits right now.

Software Assurance is playing a big factor as a lot of companies won't want to switch, so they'll sign contracts to continue using XP and Office 2k3 instead of moving on training with the higher curve.

Never fails to see MS go up when they release Office, OS, exchange, SQL, etc. Companies are the ones buying, nothing to do with the home user market.

 

[pkellmey]

Again, it's all how you look at the numbers. There are many more purchases of Vista than at XP at this time during the rollout, but that has as much to do with volume change as user base increase. The home market has been steady for new hardware, but there have been far less upgrade copies of Vista than originally expected - but much more volume for 64 bit than intended. However, there has also been less purchases technology-wide in all categories for PCs than was hoped for this year. The hardware vendors are still struggling from last year's chip/capacity problems. There is no way of tracking who purchased SA but aren't using the licenses, so its as much speculation as everything else when it comes to the questionable numbers. Anyone can spin it however they want but MS is definitely making money on it so they can call it a success (just not as big as expected).