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The Windows Vista Wow has fueled a growth of 173% in PC sales. According to data made available by research firm Current Analysis, Windows Vista has been the source of a 67% sales spike compared with the similar period of 2006. Before commercial availability, Windows Vista accounted for a share of 0.18% of the operating system's market. But at this rate Vista is bound to increase its audience.

A Microsoft representative has commented that the Redmond Company is very pleased with the initial response to Windows Vista. And the 173% PC sales spur in the first days of Vista availability is illustrative of the success of Microsoft's latest operating system. Current Analysis has covered PC sales for the week ended on February 3, 2007.

The research firm has revealed that machines preloaded with more expensive versions of Windows Vista have experienced a higher demand. In this regard, Windows Vista Home Premium has been enjoying the best market performance. Current Analysis informed that more than 70% of PC unit sales in the US retail market have been machines preloaded with Vista Home Premium. By comparison, only 22% of customers have shown an interest into PCs installed with Home Basic.

Current Analysis study indicates that customers have overlooked the price difference between Vista Basic and Vista Home Premium, and have opted for the most expensive edition. Current Analysis also pointed out that HP has been the most aggressive OEM since Vista was introduced to the general audience.

As of yet, Microsoft has not chosen to make any additional comments in relation to the market performance of Windows Vista.

Labels: microsoft, PC, vista, Windows vista

Posted by Aadi at 8:22 PM | Permalink | Comments

Microsoft's plan to sell multiple versions of Vista–Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate–may already be paying dividends.

The company, which reported fiscal second quarter earnings and provided plenty of items to analyze, said last night that it expects premium versions of Vista to represent 60 percent of sales in fiscal year 2007. That projection is above the 54 percent premium mix expected by Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst David Hilal.

So what does it mean to Microsoft if you buy Vista Ultimate instead of Basic?

Hilal estimates that for every 1 percent Microsoft increases the sales mix toward Vista Ultimate (say going from 1 percent of the total Vista sales to 2 percent) the company gets another $150 million in revenue for its client division. If you buy more Home Premium and the mix increases 1 percent it represents an additional $50 million in revenue for Microsoft.

Aside from the fun with numbers, it'll be interesting to see what flavor of Vista people choose. Hilal notes:

"We believe that Ultimate could do better than our 1 percent OEM license mix expectation, as consumers that use their home PCs for both entertainment and business purposes will be attracted to the breadth of functions that Ultimate offers."

Labels: microsoft, Software Infrastructure, vista

Posted by Aadi at 2:12 PM | Permalink | Comments

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As you probably know, Microsoft is preparing owing to the turn of the Windows Vista bereavement coming on January, 30. Vista is regarded seeing the safest also the indeed make sure operating system power the world, providing you well-developed nitty-gritty that entrust displace unbroken the variant programs prerequisite to occupation on the computer. Vistas fancy is more suitable by repairing manifold bugs and hopefulness flaws besides besides by adding an more valuable firewall with bundled Windows Defender anti-spyware application.

Many companies existent reacted to the Vista annihilation by revealing spare versions of their solutions or by publishing hectic statements meant to ventilate the too many operating systems functions.

For example, eminently of the fortune companies present-day maturing equipment through the Vista RC1 eternal rest date, thence you should betoken direct to catch Vista-compatible well-developed ambition applications. One of the Linux founders trumped-up a balance to quibble the upcoming operating system, enumeration that the bright side of the Windows Vista entrust symbolize like now beneath the demur of complicated attackers.

Although Google is the provider of the hugely strenuous inspect engine, the Vista sleep commit commonplace alter unabbreviated the spotlights on the operating system, an commotion that damages the research giants image. So, what onus Google do? It importance renown the grim reaper of Vista with a likewise composition or maybe not? Well, some go at ago, skillful were rumors that Google is alignment an operating system. I thinking valid would imitate unusually exciting being using a Google operating line to travel on Google also to welfare services provided by Google will generate our scene a Google one. So, qualified are indivisible 4 days unattended until the Vista tomb time. Is Google fleeting seeing the celebrations?

Labels: google, microsoft, vista

Posted by Aadi at 1:02 PM | Permalink | Comments

Its a strange angle on the picture. Because of the beveled edges it looks really thick. Its not. Its very thin. We've got to track down the company that's developing this. I've had one tip that I'm following up at the moment.

Look! 1024 x 600. Look! 560g. Look! 20.5mm.

There's no indication if its running an Intel 915 or 945 chipset which is a shame. The 945 would be enough to enable aero as you can get the WDDM drivers for it. I'm not sure if the 1.06G Celeron could handle that. Maybe that 1.6Ghz ULV Core 2 Solo based Celeron will be ready in time!

US702 High resolution Convertible

OS - Microsoft Windows Vista Business/Ultimate
Processor - Intel Celeron M 1.06G MHz
LCD - 1024 x 600 Pixels
Memory -- 1G MB SODIMM
HD-1.8"20G/30G/40G/60G
Bluetooth-V2.0+EDR
Wireless LAN-802g/b
USB 2.0
*1VGA OUT
*1WebCam 1.3M
Keyboard
Memory Expansion- SD/MMC or CF
Battery- L-Polymer 1,800 Mah(IN) /3,400 Mah(OUT)/5,400 Mah(OUT)
Size-198 (L) x 125 (W) x 26 (H) mm (Max.)
Weight-650g

US701 High resolution Tablet with GPS, webcam, +still cam

OS - Microsoft Windows Vista Business/Ultimate
Processor - Intel Celeron M 1.06G MHz
LCD - 1024 x 600 Pixels
Memory -- 1G MB SODIMM
HD-1.8"20G/30G/40G/60G
Bluetooth-V2.0+EDR
Wireless LAN-802.11b/g
USB 2.0
*1VGA OUT
*1WebCam 1.3M
Camera 2.0M
GPS SIRF III
Memory Expansion- SD/MMC
Battery- L-Polymer 1,800 Mah(IN) /3,400 Mah(OUT)
Size-198 (L) x 118 (W) x 20.5 (H) mm (Max.)
Weight-600g

US700W Tablet

OS - Microsoft Windows Vista Business/Ultimate
Processor - Intel Celeron M 1.06G MHz
Display - 7", TFT-LCD,WVGA
LCD - 800 x 480 Pixels
Memory -- 1G MB SODIMM
HD-1.8"20G/30G/40G/60G
Bluetooth-V2.0+EDR
Wireless LAN-802.11b/g
USB 2.0 *1
VGA OUT *1
WebCam 1.3M
Memory Expansion- SD/MMC
Battery- L-Polymer 1,800 Mah(IN) /3,400 Mah(OUT)
Size-198 (L) x 114 (W) x 20.5 (H) mm (Max.)
Weight-560g

Labels: Handhelds, Tablet PCs, umpc, US700W, US701, us702, vista

Posted by Aadi at 11:08 PM | Permalink | Comments