Microsoft's Windows 7 hits 600 million licenses sold

[Brink]

Windows 7's sales appear to be accelerating. In April 2011, Microsoft announced that it had sold 350 million Windows 7 licenses in the operating system's first 18 months of availability. In a little over a year, it has nearly doubled that figure, and according to Ballmer, will match it in just 12 months.

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[Monster212]

thats cause windows 7 is XP but just updated... and to date i think windows 7 is the best OS Microsoft has released.. windows 8 is going to be another vista...

 

[pparks1]

Vista was only crappy at launch, as hardware was outdated, and 3rd party drivers weren't ready. Once SP1 came out, hardware was updated, mfg's were up to speed on drivers and Vista was pretty good. I don't see things improving after release of Windows 8. Unless we all get touchscreen displays by the time that SP1 comes out.

 

[windude99]

Windows XP= Good

Windows Vista= Better

Windows 7= Best

Windows 8= Fail

People need to stop comparing Windows 8 to Vista. Atleast people could navigate Vista because it was similar to XP. Windows 8 is completely different and will be confusing for a lot of people. The snap feature in windows 8 is very bad compared to the way it was on Windows 7. Windows 8 should've been an improved Windows 7, not a redesign with 2 interfaces. Windows 8 will make your pc look like a tablet. You can't even put a wallpaper on Metro. I like Windows Vista, but not Windows 8.
P.S. Windows 7 is really good. I'm not surprised that 600 million licenses were sold. It is a very good operating system.

 

[alphanumeric]

There will be even more sales once new PC's start to ship with Windows 8 pre-installed, and people end up buying Windows 7 replace it.

 

[pparks1]

^ You typically have downgrade rights to use the previous versions of the OS if you choose to do so, after having purchased a new license.

 

[alphanumeric]

^ That's good to know.

 

[Lebon14]

Windows XP= Good

Windows Vista= Better

Windows 7= Best

Windows 8= Fail

People need to stop comparing Windows 8 to Vista. Atleast people could navigate Vista because it was similar to XP. Windows 8 is completely different and will be confusing for a lot of people. The snap feature in windows 8 is very bad compared to the way it was on Windows 7. Windows 8 should've been an improved Windows 7, not a redesign with 2 interfaces. Windows 8 will make your pc look like a tablet. You can't even put a wallpaper on Metro. I like Windows Vista, but not Windows 8.
P.S. Windows 7 is really good. I'm not surprised that 600 million licenses were sold. It is a very good operating system.

My thoughts exactly.
Vista is a good OS, it's just a bit heavy on hardware minimum.

 

[M1GU31]

Windows XP= Good

Windows Vista= Better

Windows 7= Best

Windows 8= Fail

People need to stop comparing Windows 8 to Vista. Atleast people could navigate Vista because it was similar to XP. Windows 8 is completely different and will be confusing for a lot of people. The snap feature in windows 8 is very bad compared to the way it was on Windows 7. Windows 8 should've been an improved Windows 7, not a redesign with 2 interfaces. Windows 8 will make your pc look like a tablet. You can't even put a wallpaper on Metro. I like Windows Vista, but not Windows 8.
P.S. Windows 7 is really good. I'm not surprised that 600 million licenses were sold. It is a very good operating system.

so true,couldn't of said it better.I say 7 is the best OS out yet and vista is ok but i prefer xp over vista and i prefer 7 over xp and 8 i just don't like it.

 

[Trucidation]

You can't even put a wallpaper on Metro.

I read this elsewhere and thought it was just another conspiracykeanu joke. Holy sheet.

 

[windude99]

You can't even put a wallpaper on Metro.

I read this elsewhere and thought it was just another conspiracykeanu joke. Holy sheet.

I looked on Windows 8 and sure enough, you cannot have a wallpaper. Luckily Windows 7 has our backs

 

[pulsar68]

I think that Windows 7 is the best OS that Microsoft released.
Windows 8? Just an hybrid OS trying to fill the gap of MS in tablet market.
Good for social network and something like this but very illogical for serious work.
I'll stay on my Win 7 which works almost perfectly and hope that there will be some improvements in the next future, maybe a SP2.

 

[Dave76]

I found a app someone made to put wallpaper on the Metro screen in the DP, it made the transition between desktop and Metro much easier to take.
Haven't tried it on the two latest versions, I use the desktop 99% of the time.

Hopefully there will be a way to do it again.



I would like to find a way to sync the desktop and metro wallpaper, that would make the transition much more bearable.
There is a graphics size issue with the metro wallpaper, it takes a wider picture.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Microsoft ought to use most of the profit from those Windows 7 sales to hire additional customer support--in anticipation of the deluge of calls they will get from users buying PCs with Windows 8.
Dell, HP, etc ought to do the same.

I just can't imagine they won't be over-run with calls.

I saw a Gartner report the other day about OS sales worldwide. It referred to the upcoming Windows 8, but contained not even the slightest mention of any possible disappointment. It seems the dismay about Win 8 on this site has not hit the mainstream media.

 

[Paarkhi]

Windows 7 Sales are going to be touching another new sales level even after the release of win 8 because many people will want to go with win 7 instead of win 8

 

[pparks1]

^ After the release of Windows 8, MS won't tout the sales numbers from Windows 7. They will instead tell you how many copies of Windows 8 have sold.

 

[windude99]

^ After the release of Windows 8, MS won't tout the sales numbers from Windows 7. They will instead tell you how many copies of Windows 8 have sold.

Unless there aren't enough Windows 8 sales to brag about

 

[pparks1]

^ After the release of Windows 8, MS won't tout the sales numbers from Windows 7. They will instead tell you how many copies of Windows 8 have sold.

Unless there aren't enough Windows 8 sales to brag about

All new computers will have it installed...this counts as a sale.

Every business with a current enterprise agreement will gain eligibility to have Windows 8 on their desktops...thus Microsoft will consider this a license sale. Even if 99.9% of those customers continue to use either XP, Vista or 7 instead.

 

[pcunite]

I've personally been responsible for helping Windows 7 get onto several friends computers ... I just love it (ClassicShell and FileSearchEX too) ... I see it being around for another 10 years easily, at least on the desktop side of things. I think MS knows this and that is why they are careless with Windows 8 ... it is just an experiment to them.

 

[Dave76]

I'll agree with you on that.

MS has hinted they won't budge on Metro, so they figure you'll stay with Win7 if you don't like Windows 8.