Ah, yes. Indeed it is so.
Posted on 10/24/2009 3:43:52 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7, is on course to break sales records following its launch today.
The online retailer Amazon said that it was the “biggest grossing pre-order product of all time”, having overtaken the likes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Nintendo’s Wii.
Speaking at the launch of Windows 7 yesterday, Jeremy Fennell, Category Director at DSGi, which owns Dixons, Currys and PC World, said: “We have sold more copies of Windows 7 in three weeks on pre-order than Vista sold in its first year.”
At midnight, queues could be seen outside stores as computers users got ready to upgrade their PCs to the new system as soon as possible.
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Oh Thank Heaven, for Windows 7!
Sales of 7 have been good because Vista was such a disaster. MSFT should pray that 7 is truly better than Vista. Time will tell.
Wow!
It’s almost like the frenzy with Windows95, except people aren’t waiting in line at stores at 12am.
“At midnight, queues could be seen outside stores as computers users got ready to upgrade their PCs to the new system as soon as possible.”
Oops, I guess it is.
Wow, $119. for the home Windows 7 Upgrade. I want it but I will wait a while to see if there are problems.
Vista actually sold faster than XP did. Only thing is, the PC market was much bigger when Vista came out than when XP came out. Of course lots of firms chose to stick with XP, which in turn is going to make XP to Win 7 upgrade sales pretty high, plus the super low $30 price for students is going to make win 7 an impulse buy and boost sales too.
Best Buy is offering a 3-system home upgrade for around that.
Ah, yes. Indeed it is so.
Is that $30 price only for college students, or can homeschooling students enrolled in an online school/college get it as well?
That was the Amazon price. We live in an area where there are no stores such as Best Buy. In fact the closest Walmart is over 50 miles away.
First Millenium, then Vista, perhaps MSFT should offer 7 for free, sort of as an apology to the PC world.
I installed three copies on my three home computers and it went perfectly. Now upgraded. I must say that I never had that much of an issue with Vista but I wanted to keep current. It will probably be a huge success although it will have to be adapted to the large number of netbooks on the market. Most of these come with XP and this is not a direct upgrade.
I like Vista. Not a huge step up from XP in terms of features, but tons more reliable. I will wait to see how 7 goes over before I commit to an upgrade.
Looks like Best Buy and Amazon are matching each other — the price is identical now.
I think there were early purchase price incentives.
The single user Home upgrade is $119 — the 3 user Home upgrade is $149.
I don’t think you can go from xp to win 7, I’m not an expert.
Vista had quite few device driver/app compatibility issues when it first came out. However, SP1 and SP2 pretty much fixed the issues.
” It will probably be a huge success although it will have to be adapted to the large number of netbooks on the market. Most of these come with XP and this is not a direct upgrade.”
Most netbooks are going to continue to come with XP for the next 12 months at least, because MSFT charges only $15 to OEM’s for XP on a netbook, but then wants to charge higher for Win 7, which netbook makers are not ready to pay for netbooks that they sell so cheaply.
My wife has Vista, has spent about $400 trying to get it to work well. For me, I went Mac about two years ago, and you know what they say “Once you go Mac, you never go back”.
The "upgrade" requires a fresh install when you go from XP, but Microsoft had a nice little free program that grabs your profile and anything else you want it to and saves it in a file on a jump drive, then puts it all back where it needs to go on the new install.
Overall, it was the most painless upgrade I've ever done. I'm really liking it. My system really smokes now with the 64 bit version!
I have't read past your reply yet, but I'll bet there will be someone talking about how a free version of Ubuntu is just as good. (Well Ubuntu WILL run on a 386 with 64Mb of memory!)
Produce crap.
Produce solution to previous Crap.
Success!!!!
Profit!!!!
I like Vista, too. I have had NO problems with it. Unlike XP, and I was very resistant to switching at the time.
Well I went out and purchased a new HP computer with Windows 7 on it today and so far compared to Vista I LOVE Windows 7!
If that were all that it takes to make money, why are you not as rich as Bill Gates is?
It’s not like going out to buy a Toyota if you’re unhappy with your Chevy.
The Toyota in this case (Apple) would cost twice as much.
I still think there’s an opening for a 3rd brand of consumer OS. Perhaps that’s where Google is heading? Of course that won’t fly on FR because they’re liberals........sigh.
It better get here soon because, Vista sucks.
In a nutshell, what is it about 7 that makes it better?
My dad wasn’t a lawyer and I’m quite happy giving my IP away or selling it cheap.
Or for about 3 times that, you'll be able to get a decent new computer in January with it already installed.
Windows95 with a fancy paint job.
That may have something to do with the fact that "Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows" cost in the neighborhood of $20 while Windows 7 is in the range (depending on the version) of $120 to $300!
So a single copy of the Windows 7 Premium Home upgrade costs the same as 5 copies of HP & TDH.
Mark
Congratulations on the new computer!
So did they completely knock-off Apple’s 10.5 or just part of it?
Naaaah.
They just knocked off you head, and put chaff inside your coconot, then put it back on, that's all.
Same 'ol MS hype. No one ever seems to learn. MS has figured out they can release a "new" OS every 3 years or so since the public seems to take that long to forget the last time MS shafted them.
There's a great new Apple ad to that effect here:
It’s part of MS’s new business model. Release your next OS (Vista) before it’s ready, get a lot of press about how bad it is, and then release an upgrade, saying it’s a “new” OS. Seems to have worked.
You fell for the MS marketing, it seems. They rolled all the "PLEASE let me get XP instead of Vista!!" sales into Vista. If you bought XP, they counted it as "Vista with XP option" to inflate Vista numbers.
Has been working for game companies for more than a decade.
HP desktop with vista, 3G memory, 240GHZ, went to 7 yesterday and I do not see any difference. Waste of money in my opinion. Yes it has bells and whistles, but I expected performance boost or something noticible, but I see no difference yet...
That Apple ad has been labeled the height of “douchbaggery” across the internet. I would be embarrassed to even post it.
It’s smaller, faster, more stable and has much better driver support. Also the annoying security “features” of Vista have been toned down.
There were 7 years between XP and Vista. And meanwhile there’s a new OSX about every 18 months.
Not quite.
If you just think back for a minute, you might recall that Vista was launched in 2 phases:
On Nov. 30, 2006, Microsoft released Vista to businesses through volume licensing, with very little fanfare and no marketing.
Then on Jan, 2007 the bigger Vista launch occurred, with Vista on sale to the public, with Ballmer in New York, and all the marketing hoopla.
According to NPD, Vista's December 2006 sales (which were to only businesses with bulk licensing) were 62.5 percent higher than March 2000 launch sales of Windows 2000 and only 3.7 percent lower than November 2001 launch sales of Windows XP.
When you combine the December 2006 and Feb 2007 Vista launch sales, they easily beat XP launch sales. As far as your snarky bomb throwing is concerned, very few consumers would go into stores and buy a copy of Vista or buy a new Vista PC, only to turn round and use XP again.
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