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Give another announcement of how many of your machines shipped with Vista like you did a year ago.

180 points posted to Advertising and Marketing, Operating Systems by jmxz Jan 11

Almost exactly a year ago (Jan 29, 2007) Dell announced what percentage and now many Dell machines shipped with Vista. Interestingly, the percentage of Vista systems Dell announced for Jan 2007 was much much higher (about 61% higher) than current speculation based on Gartner and Information Week that suggest that industry-wide "Vista takeup on new PCs shipped in 2007 amounted to only 39 per cent". Other developments since Dell last announced Vista percentages included Dell adding XP to more models and supporting more different versions of Linux than they had in the past.

In light of these developments, Dell, could you announce the operating system market shares again this January, like you did last January? It seems like forward progress of being less dependent on Vista (thanks to XP and Ubuntu) would be good news for Dell.

[PS: I seem to recall someone from Dell on IdeaStorm saying Dell doesn't release such figures; but clearly the first link here shows that they did last year. If it's a new policy not to disclose the figures, could you instead describe that policy and why it was instituted?]

thomasp94
Jan 15		 I was thinking the other day that it would be interesting to know how many computer actually go out the door with vista. The only problem is that the average user that doesn't really know what they are buying is going to buy vista, because, either they don't know any better, or they think it is the best thing to get because it is new. If it were not for these people, and the fact that Dell still forces you into vista on 75% of their machines, I think that the number of machines going out the door with Vista would be VERY VERY LOW.
jorge
Jan 31		 I think that qualifies as Vista bashing.
fargo
Feb 1		 whats with this vista bashing crap haven't you people ever heard of free speech, apparently there are
a few here who got caught up in buying the second coming of win me!
jorge
Feb 1		 @fargo, take a time out fargo, you need to read all my ideas to understand that reply, and all the vista ideas as well.
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