"then they format"
Some do
"OR they dual boot"
Some also do.
It is noted that this time you avoided your usual FICTION you often
attempt to pass off as fact.
That suggests you have no FACTS to give any numbers for the above.
I also know of some who bought the inexpensive Linux computers only to
get the cheap hardware and discarded the provided Linux.
Funny how you never state anything like this.
Without numbers, the information is pretty much useless.
Just as useless as most of what you post as well as that some buy
inexpensive Linux computers then dump Linux.
But I suppose it give you a feeling you post something even though the
content is pretty hollow.
"only web statistics can give you a good estimate of how many Vista
machines are out there"
Now we see where you get your fiction.
No, not at all, Web sites draw particular people in specific groups
including more of some and less than others, Google included.
There are simply to many variables you CHOOSE to ignore.
But continue going on cherry picking as you have done in the past,
finding what supports your views and discarding anything else.
I suppose if I was like you and unable to get Windows Vista to work I
might see it as a "HORRIBLE OS".
However the FACT is Windows Vista works well for many people as well
as on two older computers of mine, a FACT you are unable to disprove.
--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
"vista user 43" <> wrote in message
news:4766f443$...
> no andre... People are buying more computers with vista
> preinstalled, then they format the HORRIBLE OS, and install XP on it
> or even linux!
>
> OR they dual boot.. mevetheless buying vista is not equal with USING
> vista in the long run.
>
>
> market share for vista is irrelivent.. what matters is HOW MUCH ITS
> BEING USED!
>
> And its beeing use less than MACOSX lol!
>
> only web statistics can give you a good estimate of how many Vista
> machines are out there...
>
> since sale numbers give a very distorted image of what is really
> going on...
>
>
> from what I have seen, people are formating vista like crazy.. IT
> people are making small fotunes just by formating and installing XP
> on vista machines...
>
> and the Web stats back up what I have seen