Prostoalex (a blogger I know personally) writes the below :

“A Microsoft-sponsored study found that Vista will be a boon to European economy, as it ‘will create more than 50,000 technology jobs in six large European countries and will lead to a flood of economic benefits for companies there,’ News.com reports. Europe will see a total of 1.2 mln paychecks thanks to the new operating system: ‘In the six countries studied, more than 150,000 IT companies will produce, sell or distribute products or services running on Windows Vista in 2007 and will employ 400,000 people, IDC said. Another 650,000 will be employed in the IT departments of businesses that rely on Vista.’”

Well, its undeniable that any software company that opens in EU does bring jobs with it….But they can also shut down anytime and bring suffering too when a VSS happens. What’s the big deal. Vista will also be a boon to security software companies if crackers find out more of its bugs… Microsoft is blowing its horn a bit too much this time…