ales of boxed copies of Windows Vista at retail stores significantly trailed those of Windows XP in each product's first week on shelves, according to new figures from NPD. The market research company's data showed the number of copies of Vista purchased was nearly 59 per cent less than the number for its predecessor XP, looking at the first week of sales. Revenue was also down, but less dramatically, with the dollar value of first-week Vista sales off 32 per cent from that seen with XP.
Vista went on sale both on retail shelves and on new PCs on 30 January. Businesses with volume license contracts have been able to get the new operating system since November. Although boxed-copy sales were weaker, PC sales during the launch week were up 67 per cent over computer sales in the same week a year earlier, NPD analyst Chris Swenson noted.
Swenson wrote in an email: "Thus, the preliminary data suggests that consumers are getting the message that they need a more robust system to take advantage of some of the new features in Vista, and thus a relatively smaller number are opting to upgrade older machines with the new OS themselves."
Full story: silicon.com
Vista went on sale both on retail shelves and on new PCs on 30 January. Businesses with volume license contracts have been able to get the new operating system since November. Although boxed-copy sales were weaker, PC sales during the launch week were up 67 per cent over computer sales in the same week a year earlier, NPD analyst Chris Swenson noted.
Swenson wrote in an email: "Thus, the preliminary data suggests that consumers are getting the message that they need a more robust system to take advantage of some of the new features in Vista, and thus a relatively smaller number are opting to upgrade older machines with the new OS themselves."
Full story: silicon.com
