Windows Vista goes on sale at Amazon
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Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc.   has started taking early orders for Microsoft Corp.'s   long-delayed Windows Vista operating system, offering  versions of the product from $100 to $399.
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Microsoft Corp rolled out Windows Vista at retailers in 70 countries yesterday, delivering a new computer operating system that aims to better manage the explosion of digital media and protect users from the dangers of the Internet.
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Microsoft Corp. unveiled a new line of computer peripherals, including a $250 wireless keyboard and mouse that are compatible with its upcoming Windows Vista operating system.
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NEW YORK/LONDON  - Microsoft Corp. rolled out  Windows Vista at retailers in 70 countries on Tuesday,  delivering a PC operating system that aims to better manage the  explosion of digital media and protect users from the dangers  of the Internet.
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A Microsoft study finds that total cost of ownership for Windows Vista on mobile PCs is $605 less annually than Windows XP.
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Microsoft is set to offer either free or discounted Vista upgrades to those who purchase new computers during the holiday season, press reports indicate. To qualify for the coupons, a PC would need to be purchased after October 28 of this year.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft may be having trouble selling Windows Vista in retail, but its Office line is going like gangbusters, according to market research firm NPD Group. Part of the reason: People who switch from PCs to Macs. Office 2007 on Windows is selling at roughly double the rate its predecessor, Office 2003, did in its first months after release, NPD analyst Chris Swenson said Wednesday. "Any way you cut it, the first six months, or a similar January-through-July period, or the first week or even the first month [of sales], no matter how you slice it, Office 2007 is selling much better than Office 2003 did," said Swenson. And even though Office 2004 for Mac is far from new, Swenson said, it's also contributing to Microsoft's suite success. "Mac Office represents about 20 percent of all Office sales in U.S. retail. At first, that seemed really surprising, but if I'm switching to Mac, there are a few key [software] products I'm going to buy, and Office is one of them." In other words, even though they're leaving the PC behind and abandoning Windows, newly-minted Mac owners are still shoveling money at Microsoft, Swenson said. "Microsoft's still making the Office sale," he said. Swenson's data comes from NPD's monthly reports of software sold at major U.S. retailers such as Best Buy and CompUSA as well as data from the more than 180 Apple retail stores and a few online sellers, including Amazon.com and Buy.com. Mac switchers aside, Microsoft's unheralded success selling Office -- Swenson noted that it typically gets buried by the bad news about Vista's retail performance -- stems from smart pricing. "The most important thing is the pricing of Home and Student 2007," he said, talking about the $149 package that lets customers install the software on up to three PCs. "Eighty percent of all copies sold at retail are this edition," said Swenson. "When Microsoft came out with version 2.0 of [this package], it started seeing increases not only in unit volume, but also in dollars." Swenson was referring to the licensing changes Microsoft made to the student-priced edition in 2003 that bumped up the number of allowed installs in the same household from one to three. Second on Swenson's list of reasons for Office 2007's success is something Microsoft has little control over. "Part of it is clearly installed base," he said. "There are roughly 100 million more PCs now than there were in 2001, so even if the same percentage of users buy Office, sales go up." But if Office 2007 is outselling its forerunner, why did the company just roll out a $59.95 promotional price to students? "I think they want to drive demand for [Office 2007] Ultimate," said Swenson. "It's just not doing as well as Ultimate on Vista." The Microsoft promotion, which runs through April 30, 2008, is available immediately to enrolled students in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. who have a matching educational institution e-mail address. Next week, the program will expand to France, Italy, and Spain. Office Ultimate 2007, which lists for $679.95, includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Groove, and InfoPath. Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate
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Retail sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista in the first week after its launch were almost 60% below sales of boxed copies of Windows XP in the same time frame after its launch in 2001, according to the NPD Group Inc., a leading market research group.
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The wait is over. It's official. Retail store shelves are adorned with rows of stylized boxes that contain the various flavors of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite. Vista became available at more than 39,000 retail stores in more than 70 countries on Tuesday with all the fanfare Microsoft could muster.
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By Liu Baijia  Microsoft's latest operating system Windows Vista hit the consumer market yesterday.  Those using Windows XP for almost six years, keen to embrace digital convergence, have been looking forward to Windows Vista, which offers richer and safer applications.
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Upgrading to Microsoft Corp's new Windows Vista Business operating system from Windows XP will push PC hardware component costs up by 20% or roughly $100, according to new research by iSuppli Corp.  The average desktop running XP contains components that cost an OEM a little more than $500.
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By Robert Evatt, Tulsa World, Okla.  Jan. 31--After 5 1/2 years, Microsoft Corp. finally unleashed its new computer operating system, Windows Vista, at local stores Tuesday.
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By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Jan. 28--LET OTHERS SORT OUT FLAWS OF WINDOWS VISTA: It's finally here.   Windows Vista, the long-awaited successor to XP, hits stores on Tuesday.  You'll be hearing a lot about it between now and then.
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Amazon.com is taking pre-sale orders on several versions of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system to be fulfilled on January 30 when the software giant says the consumer product will be available.
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REDMOND, Washington  - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O   unveiled a new line of computer peripherals on Wednesday,   including a $250 wireless keyboard and mouse compatible with   its upcoming Windows Vista operating system.
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Microsoft has reversed course and will now allow Vista users to run a virtual copy of the least expensive versions of the operating system, Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium.
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Here are some details about Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system, which became available to consumers Tuesday: