Windows 7 Sets Early PC Sales on Fire

Cool.

I think Windows 7 launched at a perfect time, what better way to gain marketshare than the Xmas shopping season with all the sales that retailers have. Sure the rise in sales wont all come from windows 7 but you can be sure that a lot of them will be. I do think that sales will continue to rise but not drop as fast as they normally do after the holiday season.

microsoft put a boatload of time and money into this OS after vista. the sales (after they settle down) will likely reflect the change in quality and also the change in price.

Hopefully the market is on the rise

And on a side note...that 'Castrol' add is really annoying! Roll over it on accident EVERY TIME and it fills pretty much the whole page. Try to find less obnoxious adds =/

I was hoping to read about something more literal. I like fire.

Bullshit! I've been waiting for Win7 that's why I haven't replaced my 2-3-4 PC earlier this year. I guess many people just waited for Win7 to be released before they get their new laptops with OEM Windows version preinstalled.

hmm how much of that 40% are mac sales though?

None?

how about.... 0.03%

you mean that new mac vs. PC ad is lying to us?!!!! LOL

I don't know if i'm falling for a joke, but here it is.
The article is about the rise of win7 sales, Mac is something else.
Read the articles before commenting.

so if that quality, completely impartial Toms article is true, I assume Mac sales are up 50%?

I totally agree. After clicking a link at the top of one page, I end up mousing down as the page loads, and what do you know... I just moused over an advertisement that hadn't even loaded yet. Now I get a big ad covering the whole article.

It is pretty annoying, I just haven't spoken out about it yet.

Apple Corporation is a joke, they have good products but have a marketing team that has no idea at all on how to enhance sales. They have choosen to take a sad and unrealistic approch at takeing stabs at their competition which currently has a 87 percent market share. Until they stop with their sad commercials and get back to fun advertisments that don't bad mouth the competion, their not going to go anywhere. And last but not least, Apple needs to stop playing their Itunes games and release teh Iphone to all carriers. If they do all the above they have a good chance of gaining seriuous market share in phones and in Pc's. Stop the games and everything turnes around, keep playing and nothing changes.

Windows did a pretty good job with 7, although when advertised as "Vista done right." I feel as though I shouldn't have to pay for 7 because they botched Vista so much. Ah well, that's what I get for being an early adopter. I think 7 is going to be mainstream in little time. It's leaps and bounds better than Vista. Or at least feels that way.

I'll wait and see. Could be like cash for clunkers that stole a ton of sales from the future and crammed it in all at once.

The invisible hand controls all.....

I hope this sparks some boost in PC Gaming

I was in Best Buy the last two weekends, and it looked like they were giving away laptops. A lot of people were buying laptops while I was there both times.

All we need now is for AMD to wake up and release some very affordable quad core mobile processors, and six core desktop processors.

Doesn't suprise. I brough my laptop to school today and now everyone wants windows 7 who has seen it what really gets them is aero shake (it cna be fun...) and also how fast it is its just sooo fast the program i use the most load faster over time not slower and its more then a service pack osx snow leopard is a service pack in my eyes

on another positive note, I noticed that Marcus can write some decent articles that can appreciate WinOS and it's accomplishments... Now if only he could do without the teeth grinding tone in the background, that would be great... Example: the PC industry has always been..."revitalized"; no need for counter-arguments.
Overall, good job and +1 to Microsoft for a great product!

Even my mac friend is switching.. hes selling his 3 grand macbook and imac and getting me to build him a top end gaing computer and he is also buyig a nice laptop he says hes sick of apple riping him off

I thought this was supposed to make Macs sell better? Looks like common sense wins again.

I contributed to that statistic, although not for Windows 7, but for AMD's Tigris platform. Plenty of laptop vendors refreshed their product lines across the board, I'm not convinced that it's all Windows 7 here, I plan on installing Linux as soon as Linux supports AMD's new platform, Win7 had nothing to do with my purchase.

Don't worry, these sales are all for file sharing purpose...

I just got my Windows 7 sticker in today from ebay and installed it on my laptop. Windows 7 runs like a dream on that system and I had so many problems with Vista on it it is crazy.

I have to say I like Windows 7 about the best of any OS MS has released. I think I was happier with XP when it came out but that is only from coming from the hell that was Win9x.

Good job MS!

What the hell are you talking about? The PC industry, along with almost all other consumer spending, has been in the sh*tter since the economic meltdown last year. Tech companies and their investors will be watching PC sales with a microscope throughout this holiday season and the first quarter of next year.

Because of Microsoft's Win 7 and Apple's overall corporate success over the last several years, these two companies are a major gauge for the entire technology industry!

From what I've been seeing on news sites and such, W7 is gaining market shares rather quickly. If this is any indication of the near future, I would expect to see the W7 market share hit double digits near the peak of the holiday season (or soon thereafter).

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Vista got such a bad rap, that people were rolling back to XP and begging for windows 7. It looks nice. Nice job Microsoft.

For a web site that focuses on crunching numbers in benchmarks you seem to have missed an important point. Sales were down 29% in the 2 weeks leading up to the release. That results in a net sales figure for the 3 week period 6% down.
There is no success here, PC's lost sales. This was just some smart people not buying a computer, and having to do a manual install of 7, and instead waiting a week and having a factory install of 7 ready to go.