Windows Vista is selling more than twice as fast as Windows XP, according to Microsoft's latest press release. 20 million copies have been sold in the period from January 30th to Febuary 28th. In fact, Windows Vista has sold more copies in it's first month than XP sold in it's first two. From Nov. 2001 to Jan 2002, Windows XP only sold 17 million copies.

Microsoft hasn't broken down any of these numbers, so we how no idea how many retail vs. OEM licenses were sold, nor do we know how many were sold of each edition. However, in an interview with Windows marketing director Bill Mannion, News.com learned that Vista Ultimate sales are better than expected.

"We have relatively modest expectations for Ultimate, but it's exceeding that on both new PCs and the packaged product."

So, if you're someone who has been writing off Vista as unimportant, you should probably stop now. Windows Vista is Microsoft's hottest selling OS ever. They must have done something right.

Oh yeah, and BTW, it's ok for the stock price to go up now. :)


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