Some of the numbers include retail sales and OEM.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-802531.html
Fewer than 300,000 boxed copies of the new operating system were sold in the first several days
of its availability, according to preliminary figures from NPD Intelect, which has polled
roughly 80 percent of its retailers and mail-order clients about XP. Although some poll
respondents indicated that demand was "healthy," NPD asserts that the final tally of first-week
sales will likely be 20 percent to 25 percent lower than what Microsoft saw with Windows 98.
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/...3549.html?Ad=1
"Just taking a look at the numbers, it's not selling as well as [Windows] 98," said senior NPD
analyst Steve Koenig. "The volume isn't there." NPD noted that XP sold 400,000 copies at retail
in October, but just 250,000 in November. These numbers compare to 580,000 copies of Win98 sold
in its first month of availability and 350,000 in its second.
But retail sales aren't necessarily an important measure of success because they represent less
than 10 percent of XP's overall sales. Most copies of XP are sold with new PCs, and PC sales
have been higher than expected this quarter. Based on NPD's figures and an earlier Microsoft
announcement, manufacturers sold more than 6.5 million copies of XP with new PCs by the end of
the first week of November. Microsoft says these numbers make XP the best-selling Windows
release ever. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates noted in his Comdex keynote
speech in November that XP sales were "more than double" that of any previous Windows release.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...ntumcespr.mspx
Microsoft Windows XP Sales Exceed 17 Million Copies Just Over Two Months After Worldwide Debut
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5204407.html
Microsoft said Monday that retail and new PC sales of Windows XP, its flagship operating
system, have grown to more than 210 million copies since the product was launched two and a
half years ago.
http://www.information-age.com/artic...d_in_confusion
11 December 2001 The sales success - or failure - of Microsoft's recently released Windows XP
operating system for desktop computers is shrouded in confusion.
Microsoft is yet to release specific details of product sales. However, Jim Allchin, head of
Microsoft's Windows product division, is quoted in the The Wall Street Journal saying that he
is "very happy" with the initial sales of Windows XP and that some retail outlets had even sold
out since the launch on 25 October 2001.
Independent analysts have expressed mixed opinions about how well Windows XP is selling. John
McPeake, a financial analyst from Prudential Financial, is as upbeat about XP sales as Allchin.
McPeake says that sales of Windows XP that are pre-installed on PCs - as opposed to copies of
the software sold on their own - were 200% higher in the first month the product was on the
market compared to the previous major release, of Windows 98.
Other analysts point out that the rapid growth in the number of home PCs since the release of
Windows 98 distorts any such simple comparison because there is simply a bigger market for XP
now then there ever was for Windows 98.
Steve Koenig, an analyst at NPD Techworld, has compared sales of standalone copies of Windows
XP with those of Windows 98. The figures, released in November, show that retail sales of
Windows XP in its first week lagged behind those of Windows 98 and Windows 95.
In addition, the drop-off in sales of Windows XP in the product's second week on the market
compared to the first week was steeper than the decline that occurred with Windows 98. Windows
XP sales fell 40% in the second week, compared to an 18% drop-off for Windows 98, says Koenig.
Furthermore, Koenig recorded no lift in retail sales of PCs around the time of the launch,
contrary to the hopes of PC vendors prior to the launch.
Microsoft is expected to release more information about Windows XP sales in January 2002.
"Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message news:45BE7752.80701@vistarip.com...
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> That's cool. 
I wonder how it compares to other OS launches? Vista is having a lot of
> publicity these days, so it should be a big launch with a lot of sales.
>
> Dustin Harper
> dharper@vistarip.com
> http://www.vistarip.com
>
>
>
> Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
>> Dell Computer began taking orders for Windows Vista systems this weekend.
>> The first reports are in.
>>
>> So far, according to Dell CEO Kevin Rollins:
>> - Dell saw a 20 percent increase in Web traffic - 100 percent of its new consumer orders
>> were for Vista machines - Dell sold "tens of thousands of copies" of Vista out of the chute
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