At the annual meeting of financial analysts, Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO announced that it has sold over 60 million licenses for its latest operating system, Windows Vista. The announcement appears to confirm a permanent slowdown in Vista sales, which ran to 20 million in the first month and 40 million in 100 days, but were halved for both March and April. Microsoft officials also announced that the sales of Vista and Office helped boost revenues to $50 billion, first time in history for the company. Vista and XP contributed with $15 billion in 2007, with $2 billion higher than 2006.

Microsoft also used the meeting to convince skeptics of Vista’s improved security. “Windows Vista is the most secure operating system we've ever released,” said Kevin Turner, chief operating officer. “In the first 180 days we've had far fewer high-severity vulnerabilities than XP. We've had 12 in Vista. We had 25 in XP.”
I wonder how many of those were licenses sold to manufacturers at an especially attractive price to make it appear that Vista is fabulously successful?