SUPRISE: Vista Launch Week Sales Less Than HALF Of Windows XP (well should we have expected anything different?)

Retailers sold less than half as many shrink-wrapped packages of Vista than Windows XP, and reaped almost a third less revenue, in comparing the launch weeks of both Microsoft operating systems, a research firm said Thursday. During Vista's launch week at the end of January, retailers sold nearly 59 % fewer units than XP in 2001.