Microsoft expecting Windows XP sales to remain strong this financial year

Microsoft expecting Windows XP sales to remain strong this financial year

Microsoft might have launched their Vista operating system earlier this year but they are still selling a lot of copies of their age old XP operating system.

The company said in a statement that it expects Windows XP to make up a significantly larger part of sales in the coming year.

Microsoft said in a statement that they have now changed its fiscal year 2008 forecast from an 85/15 split in sales between Vista and XP to a 78/22 split.

This means that the sales of XP operating system would be nearly 50 percent higher in the next 12 months than Microsoft had estimated earlier.

Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell added in a statement: “We fine-tuned the Vista/XP mix for next year. We changed it from 85 percent to 78 percent. Now, it’s a lower number [for Vista], but it’s still a very high number overall from our perspective, so 78 percent Vista mix in terms of sales next year.”