Numbers about windows vista

By Christopher Lawton
Word Count: 336 | Companies Featured in This Article: Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard

SAN FRANCISCO -- U.S. personal computer buyers took to the stores to buy new systems in the first week that Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system was available, according to data from research firm Current Analysis, Inc.

The firm said that unit sales of PCs at U.S. retailers for the week ending Feb. 3 jumped 67% versus a year ago and 173% from the prior week, when Vista ...