Posted on 06/26/2010 5:58:57 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier
I have a couple of things to tell you about today. First off, we are excited to announce that Windows 7 has sold 150 million licenses to-date. As I’ve said before, Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history with 7 copies of Windows 7 sold every second. Earlier this month, I published a post about Tami Reller’s keynote at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch U.S. Technology Conference. One of the points that stood out for me was her comment that between companies actively deploying and evaluating it, approximately 75% of enterprises are looking at Windows 7 for their organization. That’s amazing! And of course people continue to be excited about the features and benefits of Windows 7, and the PCs that our partners are delivering for Windows 7. You can read about many of the awesome Windows 7 PCs from my colleague Ben Rudolph (Ben the PC Guy) over on the Windows Experience Blog.
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I think around 130 million - about 5% of the total PC market.
Probably a good chunk, but I know lots of retail packages have sold through distribution channels.
Assuming an average price of $30 per OS (OEM and retail), we’re looking at $4.5 billion in sales of Windows 7 alone, in 8 months. That means close to $7 billion in sales in the first year, at the current rate. That’s a huge amount of revenue from just the new OS (they’re still selling lots of XP licenses, as well).
And a lot of folks who got Vista running fast...
You need to report this up through the INOSC or at least email the support alias for desktops in teh air force. hit me on freepmail if you need the email address.
I still have 5 NT servers runing, Compaq Proliant’s....I think they would survive a nuclear strike, best servers I have ever seen. Sadly they are going away, Microsoft’s license fees for Exchange, SQL Server and the os were just too much. Transitioning everything to OS X.
Windows 7 on a brand new 3GHz machine with 4GB of ram for $170 (OEM License) or xubuntu for on an old T20 laptop, a .75GHz machine with .5GB of RAM for $0 and the time spent burning an ISO file to a DVD and installing it? The performance is about the same and nobody is writing viruses for xubuntu
Me no techie. All I know is that I could never stay online with the wireless connection with my Vista laptop. (Running XP on the desktop.) I got my daughter her first laptop for Christmas; it was Windows 7 and worked perfectly. So I upgraded my laptop from Vista to Windows 7 and it now works perfectly as well.
But more importantly the nanny permissions restrictions are SO annoying. I'm 1 user/Admin on the machine, and yet I'm always being told I don't have permission to see this, or I don't have permission to change that. I loaded Google Sketchup and I couldn't save a file! (It tells me the file I'm trying to save isn't found; no kidding, it doesn't exist yet!) And it's a nightmare to give permissions. Numerous clicks through numerous submenus followed by numerous check boxes. Really, really a pain in the ass. If I thought I could easily go back to XP right now I do it in a heartbeat. I never had any problems with XP (which is why I never bothered with Vista.)
I'm praying it get's better.
My Daughter has two Win7 machines and they are far above the Vista she was using. I am still with XP but am impressed with Windows7 and will probably upgrade soon.
I always make a link to my pictures that I drop on my desktop; however, I keep most of my documents in my own file structure, so that I can keep all my client's files well organized.
I loaded Google Sketchup and I couldn't save a file! (It tells me the file I'm trying to save isn't found; no kidding, it doesn't exist yet!)
Is that Win7 failing, or is that Sketchup? The OS will report back you have a bad path (unknown directory), or that the file already exists (in which case the program should prompt if you want to overwrite the file). So I'd say this is probably the app, not the OS that is causing the problem.
Numerous clicks through numerous submenus followed by numerous check boxes. Really, really a pain in the ass.
I was an old W2K style control panel guy, even through the XP years. But I've found that I really like god mode in Windows 7. Check it out - everything in one location, you can find just about any setting possible in a really quick manner.
And to get the look and most of the feel of XP, this might work for you.
Similar with me.
I still use some old DOS programs and early Windows programs that have no updates and have no good modern equivalents.
They run fine under WindowsXP, but I wonder whether they would run under 7.
I use an IE6-based tabbed browser that has some add-on tools that are not available for IE7 or IE8, and I don’t want to give them up.
I keep looking at the new machines with Win7, but haven’t convinced myself to buy yet.
Try dowloading Dosbox, it is free and will run an actual dos window(not the fake one that XP has)and will run any dos program ever made. It works on XP and Vista so I would imagine it will run on Win7.
I have the same situation; I have Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, and many of my old DOS and Win95 apps don’t run in Windows 7...
However, the free Windows XP (32 bit) virtual PC works perfectly, including real-time hardware access. Download the virtual PC for Windows 7, and you end up with a complete version of 32 bit XP that you can run in its own process, and has all the capabilities of normal XP Pro.
That was similar to my short experience with IE7.
I downloaded and tried it. I didn’t like it at all.
It had so few operational options that I found it useless, uninstalled it, and returned to IE6. [I use an IE-6 based tabbed browser for FR and Firefox for most other activities.]
I tried Google’s Chrome, but it too didn’t have many options. The one thing I hates was a list of ‘sites you just visited’ displayed on the screen at all times. I couldn’t find a way to turn that off.
They cleaned up UAC, it’s faster, it’s more stable, it has better driver support than when Vista shipped, and it’s got that virtual XP thingy which can be handy.
I had read about that Virtual XP in Window7, but that is only for the Pro and Ultimate versions. It doesn’t work in the Home version.
I also read some about Dosbox. If I do get a Win7 machine, I will try Dosbox. I don’t need it for DOS programs on my XP machine.
I bought Win 7 the week it came out.
I also bought a very fast Solid state hard drive to put it on.
My impressions so far: AWESOME
Why have these sales not been translating to a gain in their stock price as it appears it has slid 20% since March...
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