They sure on their last legs those scrappy kids from Redmond.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2163005,00.asp

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The install base of Windows computers this coming 12 months will reach 1 billion," Ballmer told the group. "If you stop and just think about that, parse that for a second, by the end of our fiscal year '08, there will be more PCs running Windows in the world than there are automobiles, which is at least to me kind of a mind-numbing concept.

Unbelievable. That's 1 windows installation for every 6 people in the world. Does that count the illegal copies? Does that count active versions or just all copies sold? Is Windows 3.1 in those figures? 95? I'd be ok if they are counting 98, NT, XP and Vista.

Quite an accomplishment