Microsoft Has Sold 300 Million Windows 7 Licences
We already know that Windows 7 has seen a much more positive reception than its predecessor, Windows Vista. Last summer Microsoft announced that it had shipped an impressive 175 million Windows 7 licenses. So how are sales now that the OS has been available for more than a year?
As part of its quarterly earnings call yesterday, Microsoft revealed that the company has now sold 300 million Windows 7 licenses.
“To put that in perspective, 300 million is roughly the combined number of households in North American and in Europe!” writes Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows blo. “Or, to put it another way, if you lined up 300 million Windows 7 product boxes, they would stretch nearly 1.5 times around the Earth,” he said.
LeBlanc also reported that over 20 percent of Internet-connected PCs in the world are running Microsoft’s latest iteration of Windows. This is up from the 16 percent he reported in July of last year. However, all is not rosy on the Windows front. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft’s Windows revenue of $5.05 billion missed the $5.2 billion figure that represents an average of of analysts’ estimates.
Since when does quarterly mean anything? How about annual figures 2010?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
Microsoft did $62.4 billion revenue and $18.7 billion profit
Apple did $65.2 billion revenue and $14 billion profit
So Microsoft took less revenue but got more profit
Hardly "piss in the ocean" as you call it, my professional opinion is that you are an idiot
Are you high? your going to compare the sales of just a single thing MS sells their OS to EVERYTHING apple sells. Are you high? lets compare OS to OS sales? yeah i know waste of time because apple has what no market share? go compare another orange to that apple.
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Although if they made the Windows 7 -> 8 upgrade cost around $30... then I say bring on the Windows 8.
What your missing when you read this is that, 20% of the computers connected to the net are running on specifically WIN 7. That is quite profound if you take in the true capactity of the internet's attendance. All of that attendance allocate to ONE Variation of an operating system is impressive at the least.
Oh and 99% of statistics are made up.
Tom's just refuses to publish the quarterly revenue of Apple vs. Microsoft ... I know it hurts Tom's to see Apple crushing Microsoft financially.
Why don't you post it for us with valid references...I'm actually quite curious about your claim.
Thank you. That's the best laugh I've had all day. Not at your statement... for all I know it's true. At your pure, unadulterated fanboyism. Congrats.
Go to the Cult of Mac. Even they are honestly reporting the stats. I believe 11% is Apple's most recent market share.
Since when does quarterly mean anything? How about annual figures 2010?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
Microsoft did $62.4 billion revenue and $18.7 billion profit
Apple did $65.2 billion revenue and $14 billion profit
So Microsoft took less revenue but got more profit
Hardly "piss in the ocean" as you call it, my professional opinion is that you are an idiot
Are you high? your going to compare the sales of just a single thing MS sells their OS to EVERYTHING apple sells. Are you high? lets compare OS to OS sales? yeah i know waste of time because apple has what no market share? go compare another orange to that apple.
"Vista runs really slow".. could be due to lack of ram!
"Vista uses all my memory".. Yeah, that could be due to CACHING and using it instead of it sitting there doing nothing
"Vista takes ages".. Could be due to the 5400rpm laptop drive and 74 services, 6 from iTunes alone.
Ahhh, Microsoft, being blamed for others stupidity for years
P.s. Still can't post with Opera
Hah haa haaa haa (Falls off chair). Please, come back to the forum and comment on all the replies above