Windows 7 - 400 Million Windows 7 Licenses Sold

A Guy · 07-11-2011

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Today during the Day 1 keynote of our annual Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Steve Ballmer revealed that Windows 7 has officially sold 400 million licenses to-date. Our previous statement of 7 copies of Windows 7 sold a second continues to hold true.

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Frank1 · 07-12-2011

The article says that Internet Explorer 9 is the favorite browser today. It sure isn't with me. I had it on my desktop and my netbook. I'm back to IE 8 as I like it better. But that's only my opinion. I guess I'm with the minority.

Shadowjk · 07-12-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by Frank1

The article says that Internet Explorer 9 is the favorite browser today. It sure isn't with me. I had it on my desktop and my netbook. I'm back to IE 8 as I like it better. But that's only my opinion. I guess I'm with the minority.

I found IE8 really Slow and Ugly

Wow Is that more than Mac OS X?

SlasherIT · 07-12-2011

Lol. How do you even like IE8?

Frank1 · 07-12-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by SlasherIT

Lol. How do you even like IE8?

Well--I'm glad that I gave you a good laugh.

Mercurial · 07-12-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by SlasherIT

Lol. How do you even like IE8?

lol +1

SlasherIT · 07-12-2011

smsff7 · 07-13-2011

Impressive, I wonder if that counts copies from MSDN or MSDNAA?

Also I look forward to seeing it Window 8 can match that.

boyans · 07-13-2011

From NetMarketShare(TM) for June 2011:

Operating System........ Total Market Share (top ten)

Windows XP........51.13%
Windows 7.........27.13%
Windows Vista......9.52%
Mac OS X 10.6......3.78%
iPhone.............1.41%
Mac OS X 10.5......1.19%
Java ME............1.12%
iPad...............1.03%
Linux..............0.95%
Android 2.2........0.44%

All Windows versions together have over 88%. Mac OS X versions have over 5%.
Share of XP and Windows 7 only - over 78%.
(I guess statistics are about chosen websites and clients.)

digitalrurouni · 07-13-2011

Funny to see how many people are holding on to Windows XP. If they would just move over to a new OS or stop using the horribleness that is IE 6 that would be great.

That said and this could be slightly off topic but Windows 7 x64 cannot hold a candle to say Ubuntu Natty Narwhal in terms of performance. I am just blown away by how fast everything is in Linux! Especially development! If I did not play games I don't think I would have had any of my computers running Windows 7 at all!