Microsoft has declared that they have till now sold over 88 million copies of Windows Vista, their latest operating system. Also claimed by Microsoft is that in addition to these 88 million, 42 million PCs now have Vista licenses via volume licensing contracts signed by corporate users.

Microsoft also claims of having a number of customer migrations, which shows that users are ready to switch to Vista, though most surveys have shown that people are taking cautious approach.

Also noteworthy here is that Microsoft announces this just at time when market experts have suggested that customers are avoiding the Vista operating system due to several performance and hardware compatibility related issues. To me, it seems to be some kind of market strategy.

Interestingly, reports are also claiming that some companies might just skip migrating to Vista in a move to wait for their next operating system release, which will hopefully be more reliable.

In my opinion, it would be best to wait for sometime till the service packs for Vista come up, making it better and also till then the software and hardware compatibility issues will be solved. Also, I am not going to change my opinion, unless Microsoft pays me.. at least a free version of Vista ;))

And here’s a tip for Microsoft -> Make Vista cheaper to around Rs 500. I guarantee that I would buy it and so would millions and millions of people, who don’t want to spend a price larger than the cost of their PC’s hardware on the Operating System.