Microsoft Plays Down a Sales Lift From Vista
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Wall Street analysts are being too optimistic about sales of Windows Vista, Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoftâs chief executive, said on Thursday.
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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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Predictions are based on strong sales of Vista-equipped PCs and lower prices due to a CPU price war.
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NEW YORK  -U.S. stocks were little changed on Monday, as Microsoft Corp.  shares fell and weighed on major indexes, offsetting positive news of fresh merger and acquisition activity, and strong sales from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. .
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Though unit sales for Vista's launch week as estimated by NPD were 58.9% lower than Windows XP's in October 2001, the way NPD tabulates its launch week data - the methodology for which NPD confirmed to BetaNews this afternoon - indicates that retail unit sales of Vista may actually be 25% or less per day during Vista's launch week than for XP's.
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After years of delays and billions in development and marketing efforts, it would seem that Microsoft Corp. would want anyone who possibly can to buy its new Windows Vista operating system. Yet Microsoft is making it hard for Mac owners and other potentially influential customers to adopt the software.
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TechWeb - Lagging Salesforce and others in the hosted CRM market, Microsoft will try to win customers with lower pricing.
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The OS is chugging along on strong PC sales and antipiracy efforts, but Microsoft still faces some grumbling and a long haul in corporate sales.
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Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft easily beat Wall Street's forecasts for its fiscal second quarter on Thursday thanks to strong sales of Windows Vista, Office software and video games.
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But Microsoft downplays the value of Service Pack 3, arguing in essence, that Windows users should so get Vista instead.
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Late-night shoppers take advantage of Vista's launch to snap up bargains, but for the most part take a pass on the OS itself.
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A surge in sales of Windows-based PCs and laptops, prompted by the release of Vista, could push down Apple's market share in the first quarter of the year, according to Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster.
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Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it  expects to complete less than one-quarter of a $20 billion  share buyback this week, shifting the rest of the buyback to  later dates -- a move that traders said was boosting its stock  price.
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Windows Vista attracted most of the hype, but Office 2007 was the sleeper hit that bolstered Microsoft Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter results, despite a hefty charge to cover the cost of repairing defective video game consoles.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Thursday it plans to keep selling its Windows XP operating  system until the end of June 2008, delaying a scheduled  transition to its newer Windows Vista software by five months.
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Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it expects to sell twice as many copies of its new Vista PC operating system in its first year on sale compared with the launch of its last major upgrade, Windows XP, in 2001.
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s largest software maker, on Thursday said its quarterly profit climbed as sales rose, but the company&#39;s revenue forecast