Windows 7: 90 million sold and fastest selling OS ever
By Jenny • Mar 4th, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized
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Microsoft have announced that they’ve been humbled by Windows 7 sales that now exceed 90 million since its release late in 2009, making it the fastest selling operating system in history.
Peter Klein, Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer, made the announcement at a Morgan Stanley conference on technology, media and telecoms.
The mojo is back
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Windows 7 sales have been spurred on by critical acclaim that is a welcome change for Microsoft off of the back of Vista. Part of the success is attributable to the abysmal performance – both from a commercial and critical standpoint – of Windows Vista. Vista, which was initially incompatible with much of XP’s software, had one too many security prompts (bordering on the draconian), ran too slowly on even good PCs and had an atrocious rollout, left Microsoft in a pickle where they found themselves trying to retail an operating system nobody wanted. It got so bad with Windows Vista that computer buyers and hardware companies like Dell reverted to Windows Xp in lieu of Windows Vista.
With Windows 7, Microsoft (who of late seem to do no wrong) had a fantastic advertising campaign that showed regular people using it, as well as a campaign that took on Apple’s ‘I’m a Mac’ campaign by showing the millions of ‘not-necessarily-cool’ people who prefer and use Windows, anyway.
Windows 7, the phone series
Microsoft hope the Windows 7 sales success will translate to Windows Phone Series 7, too. The mobile OS the Redmond-based company hopes it outdoes Android and upends the iPhone from its perch. Similar critical response followed the revelation of the mobile OS as was the case with the operating system and to the extent that the hardware and software integration is anything like what was shown at the press conference, Microsoft could well have a fighting chance.
With Bing, Xbox 360, Windows 7 and Windows Phone Series 7, it seems Microsoft has forgotten how to make mistakes and if the company continues on this trajectory and avoids making the same errors it always does, the venerable technology company may have a post-Bill Gates chapter yet.
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