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  • Windows 7 set to break sales records (Win 7 more popular than final Harry Potter book)

    10/24/2009 3:43:52 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 154 replies · 2,579+ views
    The Times, UK ^ | October 22, 2009 | DSGi,
    Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7, is on course to break sales records following its launch today. The online retailer Amazon said that it was the “biggest grossing pre-order product of all time”, having overtaken the likes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Nintendo’s Wii. Speaking at the launch of Windows 7 yesterday, Jeremy Fennell, Category Director at DSGi, which owns Dixons, Currys and PC World, said: “We have sold more copies of Windows 7 in three weeks on pre-order than Vista sold in its first year.” At midnight, queues could be seen outside stores as computers users...