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Microsoft’s retiring co-founder Bill Gates has been talking up Windows Vista this week. Specifically, he’s been touting the company’s claims that it has now sold 140 million Vista licenses since it first shipped on January 30, 2007.

In fact, the number is not new. Company executives have bandied it around lately, most recently during Microsoft’s third fiscal quarterly earnings call with financial analysts on April 24.

Microsoft declines to break out that figure, although much of it could be attributed to sales of new PCs at retail. It also does not break out overall sales of operating systems between legacy Windows XP and Vista sales.

However, sales of Windows clients were basically flat in its most recent quarter, which ended on March 31, and some observers suggested that slow sales of higher-profit Vista to corporations might be one issue dragging earnings down.

Source: InternetNews.com