Bill Gates: 40 million copies of Vista are consumed

Speaking to attendees of the WinHEC conference yesterday, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates confirmed that nearly 40 million copies of Windows Vista have been sold so far.

" We sold nearly 40 million copies of Windows Vista by the end of last week, which means that Vista's application speed is twice as fast as Windows XP ," Gates said.

President Gates also confirmed the recent press release about the official name of the Windows Server 2008 operating system. The official name of the operating system is Windows Server Longhorn. It is expected that Longhorn will officially launch later this year.

Besides, the chairman of Microsoft also announced some new partners for Windows Home Server product line including Gateway and Medion. But HP will be the first partner to launch these OS applications by the end of the year.

Some other small PC makers can also develop products on Windows Home Server platform. Gates called this operating system a multimedia storage center in the family.

A recent IDC study found that if Microsoft earns $ 1 from Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, others will earn $ 18. So far, other companies have sold more than $ 120 billion worth of products and services based on the two operating systems of Microsoft.

Hoang Dung