>I'm guessing you're right about new sales vs. upgrades. However, I suspect there were a higher number of upgrades than say, Vista because the upgrade was priced pretty low. But I don't expect the number of upgrades to be higher than Win7.
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>Most corporations don't upgrade to a new OS, but rather wait for the regular lifecycle upgrade.
And then it won't be to Win8.
Win7 will be the corporate standard until Microsoft can redeem itself for both Vista and now Windows 8 (codename Vista-Bob), or until something viable becomes available.
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>>Well said, Mel. I will take Craig at his word that there are some nice improvements in Win8. But the antipathy toward Metro is so widespread it has crippled adoption of the new version. I bet most of the Win8 "sales" are copies that come preloaded on new PCs, not upgrades. A switch such as you describe might change that.
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