Microsoft: 350 million Windows 7 licenses sold in 18 months

Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 has sold more than 350 million licenses thus far, which means it truly is even now the fastest-selling running technique. Windows 7 has been accessible towards the masses for eighteen months.

"We've accomplished a lot within the previous eighteen months that improves on the experience individuals have on their PCs with Windows 7," a Microsoft spokesperson explained in a statement. "We released Windows Dwell Wave four (which incorporated Windows Dwell Essentials 2011 and enhancements to Hotmail), introduced the first services pack for Windows seven, and not long ago launched World wide web Explorer 9. And we?¡¥re hard at perform on more innovation for Windows. At CES this 12 months we announced another model of Windows will assist Program on a Chip (SoC) and very last week at MIX11 we released the first platform preview to developers for Internet Explorer ten."

Windows seven actually grabbed twenty % with the market place with the finish of 2010. In between January and December 2010, Windows XP fell nearly 10 percentage points to 56.72 % marketplace reveal, Windows Vista lost above five proportion points to twelve.11 percent, and Windows seven obtained over 13 percentage factors, pushing it to 20.87 percent.

In March 2011, Windows seven had 24.17 percent in the industry. From the stop of this month, I would anticipate Windows 7 to pass the 25 percent marketplace reveal mark, which means a single in four end users could be making use of Microsoft's most recent and biggest. Meanwhile, Windows Vista is on its approach to falling under the 10 % mark and Windows XP ought to soon drop beneath 50 %.

Three months right after release, Microsoft said more than 60 million Windows seven licenses ended up offered. With the fifteen month mark, the organization had marketed 300 million licenses. This means Microsoft was offering some 20 million licenses a month, despite the fact that today's number means that product sales have slowed down a tad. Still, back to college time is coming up, followed by the vacation searching frenzy, so the business may possibly manage to get that range back again up.

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