Friday, April 22, 2011

Windows 7 : 350 Million Sold


According to Windows, they has sold 350 million licenses for Windows 7! But is it that great?

As a comparison, Microsoft sold 180 million Vista on it's first 18 months ( Source )

Of course, hands down, Vista is just plain bad, and 7 is plain epic. This one's not up for debate. 7 is even starting to rival XP afterall.

But the 350 million licenses.. Microsoft doesn’t break out in its numbers how many of those licenses are preinstalled on new PCs, sold as upgrades or sold to volume licensees. Moreover, Microsoft gave free Windows 7 Professional license codes to students enrolling in universities that's part of the MSDNAA Program, which may accounts for maybe millions of licenses.

There's no doubt that 350 million people uses Windows 7, it's quite believable, but how much of Windows 7 sales are on numbers? How much revenue did Microsoft get from just Windows 7? That's the

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