Even though the economy isn’t at its best, both Microsoft and Apple seem to be doing well. A couple of recent articles point this out:
In Microsoft’s annual revenue report, they announced that they have seen the fastest revenue growth since 1999 which fueled a 32% increase in earnings per share. Helping their earnings was none other than Windows Vista. Thus far they have sold over 180 million licenses since launch which isn’t too shabby at all. Also helping revenue was Microsoft Office and the Xbox 360. Their annual revenue was $60.42 billion which is an 18% increase from their last fiscal year. No one can argue that $60 billion is an impressive number.
Apple isn’t doing too shabby either when it comes to sales of computers. A recent report is saying that Apple’s sales of computers grew 38% over the previous period. This now gives them 8.5% of the market. It certainly doesn’t come close to the market share that PC’s enjoy, but it does make them one of the fastest growing computer manufacturers out there.
People can jump to conclusions that one company, either Microsoft or Apple, is better than the other, but when it comes down to it, both are very successful in what they do which is important.
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How can MS make such a record revenue growth when so many people and companies are holding off buying Vista?! That’s either a lot more computers sold with an OEM version installed by default or quite an increase in price.. not sure if the latter is a good sign.
OK here’s some rough calculations:
16.14% of net users are Vista
http://marketshare.hitslink.co.....x?qprid=11
1.4 billion users
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Assuming the usage rate is consistent around the world…
1.4 billion * 16.14% = 226 million Vista internet users
The only way the user base would be significantly less than this number is if for some reason, Vista users surf the internet WAY MORE than all other OS’s to skew the percentage up to 16.14%. I highly doubt this. And it’s probably more likely that that some Vista users don’t use the internet much because it’s for work mostly. Hence more likely there are more than 226 million Vista users.
I think more companies and individuals are buying Vista than most people think…