Vista: $70 billion for MS partners
p2pnet.net News:- “Windows Vista will be an important launch for Microsoft, but it will be an even more important launch for a much larger and more extensive community around the world,” says a new IDC report.
Commissioned by Microsoft itself, it suggests Vista will, “contribute $US70 billion to Microsoft’s US partners during its first year of release,” says IT Wire, quoting IDC analyst John Gantz as stating, “Relatively rapid and widespread adoption of Windows Vista means that its launch will not only affect Microsoft, but will also have a positive impact on local economies throughout the world.”
IDC calculations, “suggest that for every dollar that Microsoft earns from Vista, its partner channel stands to make $18 – a calculation doubtless driven in part by the expensive hardware upgrades needed before most people can run the new OS. Hardware upgrades account for more than half of the $18 figure,” says IT Wire.
IDC also, “boldly predicts that the launch of Vista will add 100,000 jobs to the US market, while 35 million copies of the OS will be sold in the US from a worldwide total of 90 million,” says the story, observing, “Microsoft makes around 60% of its operating income from the Windows client, IDC said.”
Piracy was the subject of another much-quoted study produced by IDC on behalf of the BSA (Business Software Alliance).
Bill and the Boyz are founder BSA members and, “The association’s figures rely on sample data that may not be representative, assumptions about the average amount of software on PCs and, for some countries, guesses rather than hard data,” said The Economist.
“To derive its piracy rate, IDC estimates the average amount of software that is installed on a PC per country, using data from surveys, interviews and other studies. That figure is then reduced by the known quantity of software sold per country-a calculation in which IDC specialises. The result: a (supposed) amount of piracy per country. Multiplying that figure by the revenue from legitimate sales thus yields the retail value of the unpaid-for software. This, IDC and BSA claim, equals the amount of lost revenue.”
The Econmist piece was entitled, BSA or just BS?
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Also See:
IT Wire – Vista: Making money for everyone except Microsoft, December 11, 2006
much-quoted study – The Economist angers BSA, June 15, 2005
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