Subsequent market data...preloads vs. sales

Post #24,072 by kmself 1/12/02 5:54:01 PM Reply	Subsequent market data...preloads vs. sales OK, item #3, "Subsequent market data will show that these number hold for box preloads, but in-store sales figure and aftermarket purchases are low", is [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22791.html\|now validated]: "More than 10 million customers worldwide have purchased either a Windows 98 retail upgrade or a new Windows 98 PC since the operating system was released on June 25." - Microsoft, 20th October 1998. vs. [link\|http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/Press/2001/Nov01/11-11XPComdexPR.asp\|Windows XP Sales Reflect Overwhelming Consumer Excitement ] more than 7 million copies of Windows XP have been sold in the two weeks since its global launch. The 7 million copies of Windows XP were sold by Microsoft to computer manufacturers for use on new personal computers and through upgrades Note that that's a comparison of consumer sales, vs. OEM sales (sales to OEMs, not necessarially purchased by consumers). And last I checked, 7 < 10. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?`
Post #24,074 by wharris2 1/12/02 6:16:30 PM Reply	Checking And last I checked, 7 < 10. Ah, but that's not in the Microsoft universe. :=) "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Post #24,261 by jb4 1/14/02 10:07:35 AM Reply	Re: Checking Stated another way: And last I checked, 7 < 10. But only for rational values of 7 and 10. jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)
Post #24,096 by Another Scott 1/12/02 8:42:28 PM Reply	Timeframes different. I think The Register analysis is likely right, but you can't say MS is wrong by looking at your two quotes. 10 M in roughly 17 weeks for 98 versus 7 M in 2 weeks for XP. I don't put any stock in MS's numbers - it's not worth the trouble IMHO. Cheers, Scott.
Post #24,101 by Andrew Grygus 1/12/02 9:37:33 PM Reply	In that two weeks since release . . . . . Microsoft is counting all the OEM sales previous to the actual release date. I had clients already running XP weeks before the actual release. It would be much more realistic to call it 6 weeks, not 2. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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