Windows Vista twice as popular as XP
40m sold, but Gates denies 'channel stuffing'
John Fontana
Bill Gates has revealed that Microsoft has shipped 40 million copies of Windows Vista, more than double the number of XP copies shipped in its first 100 days.
Speaking at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), he said: "the reaction has been very strong. We thought Vista would open up a new level of ambition, and that is happening," he told the gathered hardware partners.
Microsoft had previously said that it had sold 20 million copies of Windows Vista in its first month after its consumer launch in late January. That, it claimed, doubled the pace of Windows XP, which sold 17 million copies after the first two months of launch in late 2001. .......
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