Microsoft's Vista sales power up

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Microsoft has sold nearly 40 million copies of Vista, its new operating system replacing Windows XP.

According to chairman Bill Gates, sales had been quicker than Microsoft had expected. Windows is used on more than 90% of the world's personal computers.

Vista has been on sale to consumers since 30 January, and there had been concerns that take up might be slow, hurting profits.

"I'm really thrilled at how this has come together," Mr Gates said.

Speaking at a company conference in Los Angeles, he added that one of the reasons for the strong sales was that many consumers were looking to increase the amount of digital media they used, a central feature of the Vista package.....

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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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