"The entire industry is disappointed by Windows Vista," the head of the world's fourth-biggest PC maker told the Financial Times Deutschland in its online edition on Monday. <\/p>\n
Never before had a new version of Windows done so little to boost PC sales.<\/p>\n
"And that's not going to change in the second half of this year," Lanci said. <\/p>\n
"I really don't think that someone has bought a new PC specifically for Vista," he added.<\/p>\n
Microsoft's operating system commands a market share of around 90 percent, with Apple and Linux accounting for the rest. <\/p>\n
While the industry had waited for years for Vista, the software was not really ready when it was launched to great pomp at the start of this year, Lanci complained. <\/p>\n
"Stability is certainly a problem," he said. <\/p>\n
Acer, with annual sales of 11.3 billion dollars (8.2 billion euros), ranks number four in the PC market behind Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo.<\/p>\n
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