Microsoft sells Ten Windows 7 licenses per second (25M sold in last 29 days, 175 million so far)

Computerworld ^ | 07/23/2010 | Gregg Keizer

[daniel1212]

Where are the Linux fans?

[RegulatorCountry]

That’s just so fascinating, SmokingJoe. Wonder what drove all those Vista sales? Was it because Vista was such a widely lauded operating system, that people just couldn’t wait to install it and experience some genuine Microsoft goodness?

[SmokingJoe]

You and I both know that Microsoft stopped supporting Win2K in 2007.

That was when Vista was launched. Win 7 was launched in 2007. Withdrawal of W2K’s support in 2007, is not going to have any effect on Win 7’s sales in 2010.

Nonsense.

[daniel1212]

But 32 bit can’t use more than about 3gb?

[daniel1212]

All i see is some html, but thank God for Firefox, with extensions.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

What i would like Windows to do is be more like Firefox

They seem to be moving away from that instead. Using their latest browsers is almost unbearable in comparison to Firefox with their limited ability to customize. And the ribbon in Office 2007 was a joke to me. They need to rehire some the talent they apparently lost during their older releases.

[daniel1212]

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

OS Platform Statistics

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Web Statistics and Trends

Statistics are important information. From the statistics below, collected from W3Schools' log-files over a period of five years, you can extract the long and medium-term trends of operating system usage.

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OS Platform Statistics

Windows XP is the most popular operating system. The Windows family counts for almost 90%:

2010	Win7	Vista	Win2003	WinXP	W2000	Linux	Mac
June	19.8%	11.7%	1.3%	54.6%	0.4%	4.8%	6.8%
May	18.9%	12.4%	1.3%	55.3%	0.4%	4.5%	6.7%
April	16.7%	13.2%	1.3%	56.1%	0.5%	4.5%	7.1%
March	14.7%	13.7%	1.4%	57.8%	0.5%	4.5%	6.9%
February	13.0%	14.4%	1.4%	58.4%	0.6%	4.6%	7.1%
January	11.3%	15.4%	1.4%	59.4%	0.6%	4.6%	6.8%

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Win2k support ended this month, July 13th along with Windows 2000 server, coincidentally at the same time that Win 7 sales spiked. I don’t know what the total internet stats of those two were but I’m sure there’s some relation to that and increased sales.

[traintown57]

I believe only beta copies of Windows7 were available in 2007, and referring to a previous post, Vista broke alot of sales records, too. When Windows7 was tried and approved by enough people that know, that’s when it took off. Vista made alot of people, like me, go back to XP. It took some time for folks to get their trust back in Microsoft, and rightly so. They shouldn’t have launched Vista, with all those problems, just because they had a deadline, IMHO.

[SmokingJoe]

Win2k support ended this month

Win2K usage was already so low, it doesn't even show up on NetAppps’s statistics of operating systems.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10

“coincidentally at the same time that Win 7 sales spiked. “

Given that Win2K users were already tiny, how the heck does stopping Win2K support translate into Win 7 sales?

[Reaganwuzthebest]

You’d be surprised how many businesses were still running that OS. Just because they don’t show up on internet stats doesn’t mean they weren’t there. I’m not saying that they are responsible for all of Win 7 sales this month, just some of it. Computer sales as a whole are up the last few months and that’s probably the bulk of the increase.

[RightField]

Can you give me more info, or suggest a place to go for help on this?

[SmokingJoe]

A personal threat?
You stepped over the line, tough guy.

Naaah.
You stepped over the line by suggesting that those responsible to creating and selling Windows 7, needed to be “hanged for inflicting misery on the world” (your words). I turned round and directed your own words at you. If you want to go about hanging people for writing an operating system, you are liable to get hanged too.
You people just crack me up.

[dayglored]

> 10 copies of Windows 7 every second over the last month, 25 million licenses sold during the last 29 days (a full 8 months after launch) is “ not impressive”? If that is not impressive, what is?

As a pleased user of Win7 at home and work, let me help you here. Raw numbers mean very little, because of Windows' 90+% marketshare. Win7's competition is not Mac OSX -- it is WinXP. Consider:

The installed base of Windows XP a year ago dwarfed the installed base of Mac OSX and everything else including poor misbegotten Vista.

XP was nearly a decade old when Win7 appeared, and after the Vista debacle, most Windows users were yearning for something to replace XP.

What will be impressive will be when Win7 has overtaken XP by a substantial majority, which I expect to happen fairly soon, BTW.

The real uptake is when businesses upgrade from XP to Win7, not when home users are buying new computers with Win7 pre-installed. Business upgrades are where any difficulty or resistance is encountered. You know this is true.

I say this as the director of my company's IT department, where we are in the midst of our XP->Win7 migration.

[daniel1212]

IE8 is 3rd rate, but i was referring to the Windows OS as regards certain aspects of customization, though you can customize Windows more than is obvious, and 3rd party appls can help immensely.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

though you can customize Windows more than is obvious, and 3rd party appls can help immensely.

Fortunately you're correct. One of the first things I did was replace the horrible icons in Windows 7 with those of Win2k. I also returned the Classic start menu and taskbar behavior with the 7 Taskbar Tweaker.

And thankfully someone was good enough to write ShellFolderFix32, I don't what moron in development thought it was a good idea to have each folder open up exactly as the previous one instead of remembering each folder's position as in XP but if Microsoft fixes anything in a service pack I hope that's it.

[SmokingJoe]

You’d be surprised how many businesses were still running that OS. Just because they don’t show up on internet stats doesn’t mean they weren’t there.

Win2K usage was tiny even before in 7 was launched last year.

” I’m not saying that they are responsible for all of Win 7 sales this month, just some of it. “

Look at this table from W3C:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Win 7 market share today, according to W3C, is 19.8%.
Back in October 2009, before Win 7 was launched, Win2K market share was only 0.7% market share. Today, Win2K market share is 0.4% market share, meaning Win2K has only lost 0.3% market share in the past 9 months. Meanwhile, Win 7 market share today (June) is at a massive 19.8% market share.
No matter how you twist it, Win2K acounts for next to nothing of in 7’s market share figures.

[sergeantdave]

You are beyond dense, and can’t understand satire. You’re too damn stupid. Tell you what - there’s a tea party coming up in DC this fall. How about you and me meet somewhere in DC and we’ll have a discussion. I’ll pay for the rooms at the hotel and we can engage in a fruitful back-and-forth conversation.

Deal?

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Firefox still has one million people using Win2k in their stats. That's Firefox alone. Many of them are schools. In fact because of that they're going to continue supporting the platform until next year despite Microsoft ending it.

Not sure why you won't concede that a percentage of the sale increase is due to other factors besides a worshiping love of Microsoft and Windows 7. Many are upgrading because they have to or it comes with the computer. Are you a stockholder or a spokesman for the company?