HP to Microsoft: We’re creating a gray market for Windows XP whether you like it or not
It’s an internet fact that Microsoft fudges its Vista sales stats, but here’s the sharp end of the stick: HP openly admitting that it inflates the headcount. By including a “license” for the latter but installing only the former on new computers, it dodges Microsoft’s efforts to prevent selling the older software even as it helps it fluff the numbers.
Jane Bradburn of HP’s Australian subsidiary told APC that its customers want XP, so that’s what they get.
“From the 30th of June, we have no longer been able to ship a PC with a XP licence … However, what we have been able to do with Microsoft is ship PCs with a Vista Business licence but with XP pre-loaded. That is still the majority of business computers we are selling today.”
XP still killing Vista in sales volume: HP [APC via 9to5]
