Posted on 07/23/2010 2:20:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Tuesday, Microsoft credited strong sales of Windows 7, as well as the introduction of Office 2010, for pushing its second quarter revenues to a record $16 billion -- a 22% jump over the same quarter in 2009. Windows revenue grew by more than $1 billion, to $4.55 billion, according to the company.
As it has several times in the past, yesterday Microsoft called Windows 7 "the fastest-selling operating system ever."
The OS has certainly outperformed its predecessor, Windows Vista.
According to data from Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Net Applications, which tracks operating system usage share by monitoring 40,000 sites that use its Web metrics service, Windows 7 held a 14.4% share as of July 21, nine months after its release. Vista took 22 months to reach the same mark.
Klein's statement that Windows 7 now accounts for 15% of the in-use operating systems worldwide not only differed from Net Applications' numbers, but also from those of Irish analytics firm StatCounter, which pegs Windows 7's current global share at 17.6%. It was also muddied by a competing claim by Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc, who said that the new OS now powers 16% of all PCs.
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
Microsoft sold nearly 10 copies of Windows 7 every second over the last month, according to numbers the company released Thursday.
Yesterday, Peter Klein, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, told Wall Street analysts of the latest Windows 7 milestone. “With 175 million licenses sold to date, it is the fastest selling operating system ever, and now runs on over 15% of all PCs worldwide,” Klein said during an afternoon earnings call.
A month ago, Microsoft announced that it had sold 150 million Windows 7 licenses.
By Microsoft’s numbers, the company sold 25 million licenses during the 29 days between June 23 and July 21, a pace that represents sales of 9.97 copies of Windows 7 per second.
That’s almost faster than the speed of light. -just kidding
Windows 7 isn’t bad. I stuck with Windows XP for a long time. I used to be an early adopter because I always managed to attend the Microsoft launch events where they gave out the OS for free but held off and skipped Vista. Windows 7 doesn’t strike me as any less reliable than Windows XP. It is nicer to look at though but it requires more overhead. I didn’t have to buy it which was a big plus since I got a “free” upgrade with my new laptop.
Even at that rate by 2014 XP will still be on at least 10 to 20% of computers. And that means it will keep living no matter how much Microsoft tries to kill it.
Windows 7 isn’t bad. I stuck with Windows XP for a long time. I used to be an early adopter because I always managed to attend the Microsoft launch events where they gave out the OS for free but held off and skipped Vista. Windows 7 doesn’t strike me as any less reliable than Windows XP. It is nicer to look at though but it requires more overhead. I didn’t have to buy it which was a big plus since I got a “free” upgrade with my new laptop.
Not very impressive when considering that the reason why is because so many XP users didn’t want Vista.
They're also not mentioning how many are downgrading back to XP. It's only counted as a Windows 7 sale. Microsoft just recently extended it again because so many businesses needed to.
Yup. I’ve got 150 computers that have to stay on XP.
That said, I plan to keep my old machines running as long as I can, I suspect I can get another 2 years out of them.
translation: we can’t ditch Vista fast enough!
bump
My only complaint is for basic tasks it doesn't do anything more than XP does and in fact in comparison I find XP to be faster and more responsive. But Win 7 is definitely the OS of the future, even if it takes longer to get there than Microsoft wants.
It’s outpacing any OS in History. Downplay it all you want, that’s damn good.,
You're right. I've had the same experience on 3 different computers with 2 and 4 gigs of ram.
Windows 95 machines and OS 9 machines still exist, that doesn’t make it a good thing.
Spoken like a Mac user. You're right, Vista sucked, I went back to XP for a while. I say,"Steve Jobs, eat your heart out. How's that IPad thing workin out for ya?"
That’s like saying a V8 mustang is more respinsive than a V6. Of course it is. Why shouldn’t it be? XP was designed to run on hardware from ten years ago. Still doesn’t make it a good thing though.
Using 7 at home and thn working with a XP pro machine at work I feel that XP is a dog that needs to just die.
And Win2k was even faster but Microsoft just killed that one.
I used Win2k for a long time after XP came out, too, because of the lower processing overhead. After I upgraded to a better machine, though, I went to XP because it’s more graphics and media friendly. I tried Vista for about 2 months before I went back to XP but Windows7 seems to be Vista fixed. I’ve been running it for about 8 months and I have no complaints.
At some stage you reach a point of diminishing returns. Windows 95 was revolutionary for its day but in comparison to XP is junk.
Sure one can say that Win 7 is more secure out of the box but with third party applications XP can be locked down pretty tight. On top of that it's fast, stable and runs people's applications almost flawlessly at this point.
No one can expect Microsoft to service any OS forever but for those still on XP and are happy there's no need to run out and upgrade just for the sake of it. I suspect many of the Win 7 sales are people buying new computers.
*YAWN*
Exactly what I am thinking. Same drivel from pretty much the same people over and over again in MS threads.
Despite a triple boot Win2k was my top choice for the longest time. Did everything I needed since I’m not a gamer. I could have run if for the next 20 years if Microsoft would patch it, even for a fee.
So, what do you run now?
Huh?
Few people in their right minds buy a Windows 7 computer, then downgrade it to XP. Win 7 is vastly superior to XP in any way you care to mention. And of course no one buys a Windows 7 DVD, installs it on their old XP computer, then turns round and downgrades it to XP again. That will amount to insanity.
The usual bottom feeding by Applebots/open source crazies on Windows threads is getting more laughable by the minute.
XP now almost exclusively.
What's that, I don't own a Mac. It's some businesses downgrading to XP because their personal applications won't run on Win 7. There was just a story out recently that Microsoft extended it again because businesses are still requesting it.
You gotta be kidding me.
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?
Tell me...how many Apple products (if any) have ever sold 175 million units in just 9 months?
Have you tried Windows7? I upgraded from an XPPRO machine and I noticed an improvement with speed and the ability to have many more apps/windows open at the same time without losing a beat, more capabilities(especially disc burning and multimedia), and still the same comfortable interface as Win2K or XP. You should try it. Like you, with Win2K, I think I could be comfortable with this OS for a long time.
Did you get the 64 bit Win7??
If God wanted to create hell on Earth, He would’ve made Microsoft 7 on the 8th day. It has more bugs than a Louisiana swamp on a bad summer day.
And I just LOVE Internet Explorer. The idiots who wrote the application still haven’t discovered how CSS works.
h2 {
font-size: 18pt;
text-align: center;
font-family: helvetica;
background-color: #66ffff;
]
Duhhh! Let’s stick some JavaScript in there that shows running chickens across the screen whenever Internet Explorer sees font-size: 18 pt.
Cool, man. And let’s set links that go to porn sites.
Yeh, man. And we can refuse to recognize Div# commands and create little jumping Flash bunnies eating clovers in the business logos.
Oh, dude, that’s sooo cool...
Yes I’ve got Windows 7 on one of my computers dual booting with XP, it’s not bad as I’ve said but for me XP is all I need. Personally I view these upgrades as just that, for the sake of it. Microsoft makes a lot of money doing it but there’s plenty of us who could stay on one OS forever. The gamers probably like to upgrade when they see improvements like DX10 or whatever but I see it as unnecessary.
I stuck with win2k for a long time after xp also.
How many of those recent upgrades were the result of Microsoft ending support for some of their OSs like Win2k in the last month? If there's a sudden rise in license sales that could be part of the reason.
# 1. A huge chunk of Windows 7 sales are done in places like Best Buy, Wal Mart etc to home computer users. They don't buy a Windows 7 computer then downgrade to XP.
# 2. Few businesses are going to go out there and buy Win 7 computers, then downgrade to XP, given that Win 7 is vastly superior to XP.
“There was just a story out recently that Microsoft extended it again because businesses are still requesting it.”
Microsoft extended support for XP way back in 2008, when some businesses were still sticking to XP. That was before Win 7 was launched. Despite that, Vista was the fastest selling OS in history, before Win 7 was launched.
I have Win 7 and it won’t open some websites in private. I never had that problem with Vista.
“Yesterday, Peter Klein, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, told Wall Street analysts of the latest Windows 7 milestone. “With 175 million licenses sold to date, it is the fastest selling operating system ever, and now runs on over 15% of all PCs worldwide,” Klein said during an afternoon earnings call.”
Some people just need to be hanged for inflicting misery on the world.
I gamed on 2k :-)
For what I did, it was generally less fussy than any other option, and thoroughly well supported. Only had to switch to XP when my old board karked it, and it made far more financial sense to go with new gear instead of trying to piece together more stuff from the same era as the original board and cpu.
Obviously, you don't work in IT or, if you do, you work for a company using apps that work on 7.
There are many companies running proprietary programs that didn't work on Vista and are interminably slow on the Win 7 Virtual Machine. Hence, Dell and other large PC vendors offer downgrades to XP: they're filling a large niche of companies that want/need new hardware but can't use 7. At my company, we build our own boxes so I've been having to scrounge for XP OEM 3 and 10-packs.
7 is the best PC OS I've ever seen...it rocks. But we can't use it.
Learn what you're talking about before calling people with valid information "Applebots/open source crazies"
It was already conceded that home users most likely stick with Win 7.
However as you can read here downgrade rights to XP were extended again past Win 7 SP1. Not every business is ready to transition to Win 7 just because you believe it's the best thing since sliced bread.
Win2K?
You are kidding right?
Say..tell me...how old is Win2K?
While you are about it, why don't you tell me how many Win2K computers were actually in use when Win 7 was launched?
As a matter of fact, there were so few Win2K computers out there, it docent even appear in the Netapp’s market share figures at all.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10
If there's a sudden rise in license sales that could be part of the reason.
No. Just no.
There was no “sudden” rise in license sales. Win 7 has been a consistently super high selling OS for 9 months now. Where do you get off coming up with this stuff?
Ever heard of Win 7 XP mode?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
Ever read what I wrote?
Except for Freecell I'm not much of a gamer. I do run across posters who love Windows 7 because they say it's great for that. But I never could see why games wouldn't run on Win2k, in fact I'd think they'd do pretty good given its low resource demands.
This has happened in some cases with all progressive operating systems. If a proprietary software won't keep up with the times, they're soon history. Do you remember when Novell had 80% of the NOS market and insisted on the IPX/SPX protocol when TCP/IP was what was coming? Novell now runs TCP/IP but it was too late. They now have about 15-20% of the network operating systems market. It's expensive to keep up with a new OS, but if you don't, you'll eventually lose out. It's just business. To answer your next question, yes I have the 64 bit.
I'd suggest avoiding that particular claim, you're raining on your own parade.
Joe is apparently only fixated on the home users. For him businesses, who are really Microsoft's main customers don't fit into his equation.
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