According to Microsoft, Windows XP is going to be the fast selling OS ever! On October the 25th XP is to be available in stores and it should be perfect. As Microsoft says, the 25th of October 2001 will be an historic day for the industries, MS and its customers.
And here goes with some more hostages to fortune: "Windows XP will be the biggest Windows marketing event in Microsoft history-- doubling the investment of the Windows 95 launch in the first four months of product availability alone. This incredible marketing push by Microsoft and industry partners is expected to unleash tremendous demand for the experiences that Windows XP enables. 'IDC expects that Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional will see more new license shipments by the end of 2002 than any other new Microsoft operating system has had in its first full year of availability,' said Al Gillen, analyst at IDC. 'This will make it the fastest-adopted version of Windows to date.'" |
Vastly more marketing spend than Win95, and uptake targets so ambitious that they surely must require a very fast switchover by the hardware manufacturers from Win98/ME and Win2k to WinXP in order to be achieved.* Note that Mr Gillen in rentaquote mode is likely just repeating what Microsoft told him, and that the machine is going into overdrive to achieve the big bang, 100 per cent successful launch.
MS is really having big plans for WinXP but I still am not conviced of this piece of software. Perfect MS software is very rare (except notepad.exe ) and they added quite some things I'm really NOT fond of.... but let's see what happens!
Source: The register
