Windows 7 has sold more than 350 million licenses

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Microsoft revealed on Friday that the company has now sold over 350 million licences of Windows 7.

The software giant marked 18 months since Windows 7′s release by announcing its new milestone of 350 million licences sold. “The momentum we’ve seen and continue to see with Windows 7 is incredible,” said Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc in a blog posting. Windows 7 has been a huge success for Microsoft and recently passed Windows XP usage in the United States.

As of today, over 20% of Internet-connected PCs worldwide are running Windows 7 according to Net Applications. It was an incredibly successful year for Windows 7 in 2010. Microsoft’s success with Windows 7 began before the product was even widely available. Released in October 2009, the operating system has received praise from consumers, businesses and the media. In November 2009, Windows 7 managed to surpass Apple’s Snow Leopard market share in just two weeks. In early February 2010 it was revealed that Windows 7 had reached 10% market share in just three months.

Windows 7 has also driven an uptake of 64-bit computing. According to ChangeBASE research, conducted with senior IT decision makers, more than 65% of businesses hoped to migrate to Windows 7 within 12 months of its release. Over 50% of those migrating will be choosing the 64-bit route. Microsoft confirmed in July that nearly half of all Windows 7 PCs run 64-bit versions. Forrester Research revealed in November that 1 in 10 PCs within North America and European companies are powered by Windows 7.

Windows 7 celebrated its first birthday after selling over 240 million licenses in the first year of sales. Windows 7′s first Service Pack was made available in February and the company is currently working on SP2 and the next-generation version of Windows.

Link: http://www.winrumors.com/windows-7-h...lion-licences/


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Congratulations to Microsoft then! Windows 7 is one great operating system so not really surprised that it has sold so many.

[paddy140]

Yes well done to Microsoft!

[Michael]

Wow, what alot. Brandon LeBlanc having a nap in the money?

[AgnesIO]

Fantastic news.

Hopefully MS can be just as successful with many more operating systems, that will surely come in due course.

[Andy-]

Not surprised with over half of a people in one school have microsoft computers, and prefer them over apple due to it's softwares like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint etc. Good on them I hope they reach more sales.

[AgnesIO]

Not surprised with over half of a people in one school have microsoft computers, and prefer them over apple due to it's softwares like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint etc. Good on them I hope they reach more sales.

But the the majority of schools etc use XP, it is still hugely impressive.

[Recursion]

Awesome Will be moving work's network over to 2k8R2/W7 when we get our new server hardware in >=]

[Firehorse]

Nice one ms ;D A nice earner there too. (Whatsit they earn on average per license, something like £50 right?)

[Andy-]

But the the majority of schools etc use XP, it is still hugely impressive.

That's true the children may use Windows 7 but the schools use XP such as mine. Though when you think about how many schools their are in the country then per class etc it is still quite alot.

[Mr-Trainor]

Well done Microsoft . I really like Windows 7 .

But the the majority of schools etc use XP, it is still hugely impressive.

Yea, my school uses XP. They have a lot of new laptops and computers which came with Windows 7, but they downgrade them to XP .