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Thursday, July 28, 2005

IDC predicts Windows Vista will raise Microsoft market share

It seems impossible, but here we go:

Research firm IDC expects Microsoft will increase its market share even more after Vista's debut. It predicts the company's share of all operating-system revenues worldwide will grow from 70 percent in 2004 to 77 percent in 2009, said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of system software research.

Security advances or not, operating systems will be upgraded at the same pace as in the past, he said.

"I suspect that the adoption rate of this software will mirror the adoption rate of other versions of Windows," he said. "It's very likely to take maybe a year, a year and a half, before it's the predominantly shipping product."

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