Win7 Is The Fastest-Selling OS In The History

Online, October 22, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Microsoft announced that its latest client OS has sold more than 240 million units in the first year of availability, it also therefore making it the fastest-selling OS in the company's history. and the help company obtained the highest profit in the situation of computer sale Slowdown.

the one-year anniversary of Windows 7 hitting tomorrow, Microsoft Windows research and development group said at Windows Team Blog: "Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history. As of September, Windows 7 was running on 93% of new consumer PCs and has over 17% global OS market share (according to Net Applications as of October 1st). There is an amazing array of great PCs out on the market today. Six months after launch, 100% (over 18,000) of our OEM partners were selling Windows 7 PCs versus 70% for Windows Vista PCs at a comparable time period.".

Earlier this year, the analyst estimated the Windows 7 total sales volumes will achieve 300,000,000 copies at the end of this year. this goal is looking possible.

Windows 7 has also resulted in huge customer-satisfaction numbers for Microsoft-a nice rebound from the Windows Vista dark ages. Microsoft now has a higher customer-satisfaction score than Apple, according to data gathered by YouGov Plc, and "Windows 7 has contributed more than twice as much to Microsoft's customer satisfaction than [the latest OS X release] has to Apple's. The annual American Customer Satisfaction Index report showed similar gains for Microsoft.

Microsoft's bottom line has benefited from the success of Windows 7. In the fourth fiscal quarter ended June 30, Windows and Office, the company's two workhorses, drove a 48% increase in profit year over year and a 22% jump in revenue.