Posted on 07/23/2010 2:20:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Tuesday, Microsoft credited strong sales of Windows 7, as well as the introduction of Office 2010, for pushing its second quarter revenues to a record $16 billion -- a 22% jump over the same quarter in 2009. Windows revenue grew by more than $1 billion, to $4.55 billion, according to the company.
As it has several times in the past, yesterday Microsoft called Windows 7 "the fastest-selling operating system ever."
The OS has certainly outperformed its predecessor, Windows Vista.
According to data from Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Net Applications, which tracks operating system usage share by monitoring 40,000 sites that use its Web metrics service, Windows 7 held a 14.4% share as of July 21, nine months after its release. Vista took 22 months to reach the same mark.
Klein's statement that Windows 7 now accounts for 15% of the in-use operating systems worldwide not only differed from Net Applications' numbers, but also from those of Irish analytics firm StatCounter, which pegs Windows 7's current global share at 17.6%. It was also muddied by a competing claim by Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc, who said that the new OS now powers 16% of all PCs.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
Microsoft sold nearly 10 copies of Windows 7 every second over the last month, according to numbers the company released Thursday.
Yesterday, Peter Klein, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, told Wall Street analysts of the latest Windows 7 milestone. “With 175 million licenses sold to date, it is the fastest selling operating system ever, and now runs on over 15% of all PCs worldwide,” Klein said during an afternoon earnings call.
A month ago, Microsoft announced that it had sold 150 million Windows 7 licenses.
By Microsoft’s numbers, the company sold 25 million licenses during the 29 days between June 23 and July 21, a pace that represents sales of 9.97 copies of Windows 7 per second.
That’s almost faster than the speed of light. -just kidding
Windows 7 isn’t bad. I stuck with Windows XP for a long time. I used to be an early adopter because I always managed to attend the Microsoft launch events where they gave out the OS for free but held off and skipped Vista. Windows 7 doesn’t strike me as any less reliable than Windows XP. It is nicer to look at though but it requires more overhead. I didn’t have to buy it which was a big plus since I got a “free” upgrade with my new laptop.
Even at that rate by 2014 XP will still be on at least 10 to 20% of computers. And that means it will keep living no matter how much Microsoft tries to kill it.
Windows 7 isn’t bad. I stuck with Windows XP for a long time. I used to be an early adopter because I always managed to attend the Microsoft launch events where they gave out the OS for free but held off and skipped Vista. Windows 7 doesn’t strike me as any less reliable than Windows XP. It is nicer to look at though but it requires more overhead. I didn’t have to buy it which was a big plus since I got a “free” upgrade with my new laptop.
Not very impressive when considering that the reason why is because so many XP users didn’t want Vista.
They're also not mentioning how many are downgrading back to XP. It's only counted as a Windows 7 sale. Microsoft just recently extended it again because so many businesses needed to.
Yup. I’ve got 150 computers that have to stay on XP.
That said, I plan to keep my old machines running as long as I can, I suspect I can get another 2 years out of them.
translation: we can’t ditch Vista fast enough!
bump
My only complaint is for basic tasks it doesn't do anything more than XP does and in fact in comparison I find XP to be faster and more responsive. But Win 7 is definitely the OS of the future, even if it takes longer to get there than Microsoft wants.
It’s outpacing any OS in History. Downplay it all you want, that’s damn good.,
You're right. I've had the same experience on 3 different computers with 2 and 4 gigs of ram.
Windows 95 machines and OS 9 machines still exist, that doesn’t make it a good thing.
Spoken like a Mac user. You're right, Vista sucked, I went back to XP for a while. I say,"Steve Jobs, eat your heart out. How's that IPad thing workin out for ya?"
That’s like saying a V8 mustang is more respinsive than a V6. Of course it is. Why shouldn’t it be? XP was designed to run on hardware from ten years ago. Still doesn’t make it a good thing though.
Using 7 at home and thn working with a XP pro machine at work I feel that XP is a dog that needs to just die.
And Win2k was even faster but Microsoft just killed that one.
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