Vista sales slowly killing XP

XP is going down in the Windows market, in order to make room for Vista, although the last operating system to come out of Redmond has had a rough ride since the launch.

Vista has managed to establish itself as Microsoft’s main source of income, driving a revenue of $4.14 billion. “Microsoft announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, a 27% increase over the same period of the prior year.

Statistics made available by Net Applications at the end of September 2007, paint a picture that comes to confirm Microsoft’s own perspective over the consistent growth in Vista uptake. XP is credited with 79% of the operating system market, down from 85% in January, while Vista increased its foothold from 0.18% in the first month of 2007 to 7.38% at the end of September.