Vista Makes Converts of Gamers, Enterprises - PC World
Sat, Feb 7th, 2009
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The Internet's chattering classes may have already given up on Windows Vista, but two key segments of the PC population apparently haven't.
More than a third of online gamers are running Windows Vista, according to a January survey (scroll down to "Windows verison") by online gaming company Valve Corp. That's almost double the 18% of the nearly 2 million online gamers surveyed by Valve last August.
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