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Microsoft's claims about strong sales of Windows Vista for the enterprise may not be true, if statistics from Devil Mountain Software, a perennial thorn in the Redmond, Wash. software giant's side, are true. According to Devil Mountain Software, about 35 percent of more than 3,000 business computer users worldwide who have installed its DMS Clarity Tracker Agent in their Windows PCs to collect information about their PCs have downgraded from Windows Vista to Windows XP. Devil Mountain Software is collecting the data to "create as large a repository as possible of real time metrics data from Windows PCs all over the world -- who's running what and how it's performing," company Chief Technical Officer Craig Barth told InterrnetNews.com. In response to questions, a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) spokesperson downplayed the issue in an e-mail to InternetNews.com. "The study monitors only a very small sample from an unknown number of sources," the spokesperson said. RELATED ARTICLES Microsoft Just Can't Kill XP Is Microsoft Getting Stung by Slow Vista Sales? For more stories on this topic: "These users are not necessarily representative of Windows Vista users as a whole." The spokesperson also said downgrading is not an issue. "Per our longstanding practice allowing 'downgrade' rights, enterprise customers and purchasers of Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows Vista Business editions can choose to downgrade to Windows... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]
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