Windows Vista turns 1

Hard to believe though it may be, Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system celebrates its first birthday today. And while we don't have SP1 quite yet, we do have a whole lot of celebratory statistics from Microsoft to share:

• "Windows Vista now supports over 43,000 hardware products, almost doubling the 23,000 at launch."
• "There are over 60 million discrete DirectX 10 parts--which only Vista supports--shipped to date."
• "An IPSos study has found that an average of 79 percent of users feel that Windows Vista is safer than their previous operating system."
• "More than 100 million Vista licenses [have] been issued to date."

For more on the milestone:
- see this Ars Technica article