MSFT Selling 7 Copies of Windows 7 Every Second

Dam, lucky I got my free house party edition last year!

but how many are from new PC purchase OEM?

Let's see... If they sell 7 copies per second for 7 years (considering what happened to xp, who knows?), they will sell...um...*pulls out calculator* 1.5 billion copies (1546322400 to be exact).

so...?

Windows 7 was a homerun for MSFT after a spectacular failure of Vista. MSFT certainly seems to alternative between flops and hits with the releases of Windows, I suspect in large part because people aren't interested in upgrading their OS every 2.5 years (Windows 8 is planned for release sometime in 2012). Unless there is some compelling reason to upgrade that is readily apparent to corporate IT managers, Windows 8 is probably not going to be as well received--even if it's well engineered.

The key issue for the longevity of Windows 7 is whether or not they extend support beyond January 2015. MSFT maintained XP support (and even sales) for as long as it did only because of intense pressure from its corporate customers.

But this can't be! OS X is the best most user friendly most secure operating system ever! It must be outselling Windows.

I wonder what constitutes as a sale. OEMs buy in bulk.

god i hate apple fanboys.....

edit: to be a little more clear i was talking about killerclick. not just a general bash apple slam fest.

If this report is to be believed, then PT Barnum was wrong. There's not a sucker born every minute. There's apparently seven suckers born each second.

Last Resort, that was sarcasm I believe.

7 computer users every second that want to have the most they can get from their purchase.

The majority of software in existence is made for Windows systems not OSX. I would not shoot myself in the foot and reduce the capability of my machine and pay the premium that Apple expects for their products. I only wish more companies could produce laptops as aesthetically pleasing as the Mac Books

At several hacker competitions now OSX has been shown to be less secure than Win. The only reason there are more viruses etc for Win is that cyber criminals and weekend CompSci students with a grudge are actively targeting Win machines.

my GOD thats incredible!

I thought no WAY are they selling more than 6 copies per second! I mean, clearly 5 per second is the gold standard for new operating systems - but SEVEN??? INCONCEIVABLE!

Actually I would think that any of the promotional licensing that was given out (house party, conventions, etc.) would be counted in their total as these items were were budgeted. Technically there was a cost associated, a payment made (most likely from one account to another), and an official license issued.

The same should especially remain true regarding licenses distributed to partners, OEM's, volume licensing and bulk sales. A "sold" license is what it is, a sold license.

Big numbers Bill. I bet the programmers are starving lol.

I live in India and of late there's an ad coming on TV about Windows 7, saying how to save in 7 seconds with a new copy of windows.Now I understand the significance.

@Kelavarus:

I installed my OS 2002, I still get new security patches and feature upgrades and on top of that I have over 100000 software packages which my OS provider sees to is compatible with my OS and that they work as they should and I don't have to surf to any shady web sites to download those.
I have cloned the data to new hard drive, I have upgraded hardware and still the OS works flawlessly.

Wow 7 sales a second! That's more than Linux gets downloaded in a month

that's a lot of money..money..money...maybe its about time they share it for free..especially in third world countries like mine..

My work skipped Vista but is now implementing Windows 7. I suspect that corporate and academic customers who are finally leaving XP (ie, volumelicense customers) are probably a large force driving sales.

Along the lines of OEMs, Windows 7 Starter on netbooks might be another big factor. (Was it Microsoft that did a good job killing linux on a netbooks, the cost to customize linux to the netbook, or consumer ignorance of open source alternatives for Microsoft products that caused this? The answer is probably all three, but it doesn't change the bottom line sales for Microsoft.)

Can someone let me know when Microsoft is consistent with their releases? Until then, it's Linux Fedora for me.

I love windows 7

good picture haha, yeah i love win 7 also, great OS .

You know, I'm sure non of this has anything to do with the total amount of PC's on the market compared to when XP shipped...