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The Catalyst 7.1 Vista drivers that were posted on the January 30th release of the new operating system were downloaded over 350,000 times in the span of the first two weeks of availability. Based on that information ATI expects there to be a total of 500,000 downloads of the driver in the first month. Traditionally, ATI's Catalyst driver updates are downloaded 2 million times a month with a break down of 5% Linux downloads, 5% XP 64-bit and 90% or so for XP 32-bit.

If these numbers hold up, that means that roughly 25% of the community that downloads ATI's Catalyst drivers on a monthly basis are now at least playing with Windows Vista on their PCs. This is a much higher number than I would have anticipated even for the group of DIY builders and enthusiasts that go through the trouble of downloading a new driver monthly. I know that many in the industry expected the Windows Vista adoption rate in the enthusiast community to be very slow, and even considering that some of these downloads were from people just trying out the OS, the number of Vista users is high enough that drivers and support should be a top priority among hardware vendors.

Interestingly, of the 350k of initial Catalyst 7.1 Vista driver downloads, 55,000 of them were for Vista 64-bit drivers; that translates into 16% of the Vista community moving over to 64-bit operating mode and a major transition over Windows XP 64-bit adoption.

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