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Originally Posted by aimeecc
True, but Vista's been on the market for almost a year, and has made little progress in the market compared to the market share captured by XP in its first year of release. Its not that its really that bad of a product, there just isn't a perceived need and few people want the hassle of the driver issues, security issues, or the hassle of learning a new OS, and it has few upgrades for typical users (it has lots of new things, just most people don't need or want them).
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According to reports based on Microsoft's significant increase in sales, both Vista and Office are experiencing robust sales.
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Microsoft posted an impressive quarter on Thursday, with Vista and Office sales setting the pace. The software giant also issued a strong outlook for the current quarter and all of 2008 -- something many of its fellow tech companies have been unable to do.
Microsoft's earnings rose about 79 percent for the quarter that ended in December -- its fiscal second quarter -- and it boosted its outlook on strong demand from around the world for its operating system, productivity software and related products.
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Returning to the original question. Why are these sales that were predicted to drive memory sales not creating the memory demand? Does Vista not require the memory increases (1 Gb memory modules) that the memory market was predicting? Vista sales are robust. Why is the demand for memory lagging?