Microsoft Corp said on Sunday that Windows Vista sales topped 100 million before the 2007 holiday season when an extra flood of buyers purchased personal computers. The world’s largest software maker announced passing the threshold during Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates’ keynote speech at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
One-third of enterprises will start company-wide roll-outs of Windows Vista in 2008 as Microsoft begins to phase out support for Windows XP, analyst firm Forrester has predicted. Many businesses have been reluctant to deploy the new operating system until it has proved its stability and because of a relative lack of compatible applications.
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The reviews are in–and they don’t matter one damn bit. Microsoft’s Windows Vista went on sale a year ago this month, and despite poor marks from the tech press and heaping helpings of scorn from Mac and Linux aficionados, the operating system has turned into a money machine for Microsoft.
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