XP Selling Like Waffles

November 13, 2001 4:08 AM

Apparently the "soft" early sales of WindowsXP were not soft at all. Microsoft has announced 7 million copies sold in the first two weeks of WindowsXP. Yow. This marks the "most successful software launch ever" for the company.

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horizon

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November 13, 2001 4:10 AM

Going back to 2000. XP = let down IMO.
- KeitaroKun
  
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  November 13, 2001 4:14 AM
  
  aybe your pirated version wasn't really the final....
  - horizon
    
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    November 13, 2001 4:17 AM
    
    Build 2600.
    - galvatron
      
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      November 13, 2001 6:38 AM
      
      As a point of interest, "2600" was not the actual (internal) build number of the final gold release candidate; nonetheless, for the sake of simplicity, "2600" is what MS decided to display on retail versions. You may have downloaded an iso of the pre-release 2600, which had a very small list of known bugs. Try the final release, you might be impressed.
      
      Mines great, thanks eDonkey 2000!