Microsoft satisfied by sales of Vista

Microsoft announced with much satisfaction that 20 million licenses of Windows Vista have been sold. While this is better than sales of XP at the time of its release, questions have risen about the validity of these sales figures, and about whether this is indeed cause for satisfaction.
- Between XP and Vista, the number of computers worldwide has increased tremendously. In terms of market share, Vista is not doing as well as its predecessor.
- Starting late last year, Microsoft has distributed vouchers for a free update to Vista, responding to the urging demand of retailers that did not want a poor holiday/end of year season. It seems Microsoft accounted those free updates as sales.
It seems, as PC Users have been confirming to us, that Vista is not tempting people using XP. Still this system will end up imposing itself ineluctably, no matter whether users like it or not, and irrespective of the fact that it may or may not be too expensive. this is thanks to the enormous mass and near-monopoly of Microsoft. It's only a matter of time before the road roller climbs up the slope, even if a tad steeper than expected.
Apple can still draw its pin from the play, and seems in good position to grab a few marketshare percents to Microsoft. Let's not forget that if OS X can get only 3% of Windows users, our OS will double its marketshare.