Happy First Birthday, Windows 7 (240,000,000!)
Windows 7 Sells 240 Million Licenses in 1 Year
It was a year ago that Microsoft released Windows 7, which many users and critics felt was the best version of Windows since XP.
Surely, Microsoft took a lot of feedback from those who weren't pleased with what Vista brought and changed Windows 7 to be a bit more friendly to… well, everyone.
In that year since release, Microsoft has sold more than 240 million licenses worldwide.
Users are increasingly pleased with it too, with people right now four times more likely to recommend Windows 7 than they were a year ago. IT professionals have taken to it too as those recommending Windows 7 surpassed those recommending Windows XP within the first five months of release.
Other bullet points that Microsoft shared in its blog post on Windows 7 are:
- Has a customer satisfaction rate of 94%
- Is on more than 1.2 billion Windows PCs worldwide
- Is on 93 percent of new consumer PCs, as of September
- Has over 17 percent of the global operating system share
- Has inspired nearly 90 percent of companies to upgrade or start upgrading to the new OS
- On average, can save companies US$140 per PC per year, and a 131 percent return on investment in the first year
Happy first birthday, Windows 7!
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That's odd. I certainly didn't receive my +$1000 cheque. Was there a coupon?
Off course it is by far the best windows OS, has almost all good features of XP and Vista.
That 131 % return i guess is for Business's.
I do feel however it has also made daily work of software industry employees like me alot more fun than before.
If win 7 has 1.2 billion copies on pcs worldwide, and a 17% share of all OSs, does that mean that there are 7,050,000,000 computers worldwide? WOW
If win 7 has 1.2 billion copies on pcs worldwide, and a 17% share of all OSs, does that mean that there are 7,050,000,000 computers worldwide? WOW
If we know 4,294,967,296 is the number of unique ip adresses ipv4 has and its down to the last 200.000.000 according to http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html to end by next year. and since we know there are more computers then adresses due to NAT. Your number would sound plausible.
Happy birthday, Win7
"Windows 7 Sells 240 Million Licenses in 1 Year"
Does that include the PC:s that is shipped with Win7 regardless if you want it or not?
piracy much?
Anyway, I think it's the best OS yet, even though it's not perfect (not retard friendly like the mac, you need to be smart to use it without breaking it, but it can do a lot more think, better and faster.
MS should make a "special edition" of Win7 that has a limited list of apps that can be installed, a good better integrated firewall and AV, better app/driver install/unistall to prevent windows rot. It would be hard to break and limited like a mac, but it would still be a PC.
240 million licenses sold, yet it is on 1.2 billion PCs?
I'm probably missing something, but does that not mean that there are 960 million PCs with pirated versions of Windows 7 out there?
240 million licenses sold, yet it is on 1.2 billion PCs?I'm probably missing something, but does that not mean that there are 960 million PCs with pirated versions of Windows 7 out there?
piracy much?Anyway, I think it's the best OS yet, even though it's not perfect (not retard friendly like the mac, you need to be smart to use it without breaking it, but it can do a lot more think, better and faster.MS should make a "special edition" of Win7 that has a limited list of apps that can be installed, a good better integrated firewall and AV, better app/driver install/unistall to prevent windows rot. It would be hard to break and limited like a mac, but it would still be a PC.
Ever heard of VLKs?
Hahahahaha Yeah mine is one of them...OOps did I say that out loud! I got mine for $18 bucks through school got six licenses for $18.
i'm using this windows 7 now that comes with my netbook (acer AOD255). so far so good.. it feels light n responsive..
yeah win 7 is actually good...
i like the ideas in the system, but i hate, HATE, !@#%& HATE the user interface to the point i refuse to upgrade.
2 week, 2 WEEKS of using that thing and i was still yelling "WTF do i do" remembering how everything was ever done in windows, and have it change, i believe for the soul purpose of making newbies see a difference, instead of just making it more stable and lightweight.
please tell me im wrong, and that there is a way to mask almost everything so it looks and feels like xp, yet retains any of the core upgrades, and i will buy it tomorrow.
If win 7 has 1.2 billion copies on pcs worldwide, and a 17% share of all OSs, does that mean that there are 7,050,000,000 computers worldwide? WOW
World population 6,697,254,041 every one in the world has a pc?
World population 6,697,254,041 every one in the world has a pc?
I had about 50 or 60 PC's (got rid of most of them -the obsolete ones).
Still have about 20 though.I am sure there are a lot of people who own many multiple desktops as well.Had to cut down because they were taking too much space.
World population 6,697,254,041 every one in the world has a pc?
No... but many people have had more then 1 PC in their liftime and use more then 1 on a daily basis.
Happy Birthday, Windows 7
serve me well.....
If win 7 has 1.2 billion copies on pcs worldwide, and a 17% share of all OSs, does that mean that there are 7,050,000,000 computers worldwide? WOW
makes sense
i have 5 computers in the house and one laptop
World population 6,697,254,041 every one in the world has a pc?
Some people own more than one computer. Some companies own thousands. I personally have 3 desktops, a media center PC, two laptops, and a server at home. It's not that far fetched.
World population 6,697,254,041 every one in the world has a pc?
No... but many people have had more then 1 PC in their liftime and use more then 1 on a daily basis.
I've got 5 i use daily.
Some people own more than one computer. Some companies own thousands. I personally have 3 desktops, a media center PC, two laptops, and a server at home. It's not that far fetched.
Exactly...
Impressive first year numbers. We can only hope Windows 8 continues the trend.
yay windows 7. I'm so happy for your success. I'm sick of XP please move to enterprise as soon as you can.
That's odd. I certainly didn't receive my +$1000 cheque. Was there a coupon?
Read that it said companies, not home users/small businesses. They are talking in terms of energy efficiency and production costs that Windows 7 helps them save on. The average home user isn't going to see this benefit because most of them run their computers 24/7. Businesses run their computers only during operation hours, and for the businesses that run their computers 24/7 (such as computer labs, LAN spots, etc.) have energy saving features that have been improved/implemented since XP.
piracy much?
There are volume licenses and student licenses (most of which are free, like my two versions of 7 Pro (1x 32-bit/1x 64-bit).
I'm similarly curious how Microsoft manages to claim a "return on investment" for upgrading from WinXP to Win7. $140/year is quite a bullish figure to claim for improved efficiency, especially given that I can't help but think that it's going to be LESS efficient at some things, due to added memory/CPU usage and general bloat. While not as bad as Vista, 7 still demonstrates "The Great Moore's Law Compensator."
users and critics felt was the best version of Windows since XP.
Given that the only other large-volume version that'd qualify was Vista, (Windows Server is something most don't see...) this isn't saying much. Quite the compliment for its birthday!
Can I install Windows 7 on my Amstrad CPC 6128? Don't get confused by the 128k, only 42k are really usable at once - enough memory for... for an empty .jpeg file? Damn, I really need an upgrade..
2 pc's at work and 1 at home. The average person that works has at least one pc at work or home. Not a far stretch to count 2 computer per working person. if 1/2 the people on this planet has a computer in their lives, that means that there's a minimum of 3 billion pc's in this world, then just add the servers and multiple pc's per people and you have 7 billion easy.
1.2B PCs with win 7 HAS to be wrong. OK, so some of you geeks on Tom's have a few PCs. There's 1B in China that mostly don't have PCs or PCs with Win 7, probably the same in India and China. What % of Africa even has a computer? You can't extrapolate PCs/person out worldwide that way.
That's odd. I certainly didn't receive my +$1000 cheque. Was there a coupon?
If this isn't sarcasm, the money savings was based off energy savings over running computers with XP and vista, over the course of a year. This is because when windows 7 has a process it needs to run it the background, it will synchronize other processes it needs to run, delaying that process for running for say... 20 ms or however long it is in that scenario. The processor jumps upto higher power less often, instead of peaking whenever it needs to run a background process. This means that the processor can stay in it's low-power state longer - saving energy, but doing the exact same amount of work.
The only think that I liked from Vista was the SideBar. I'm sad that they did not include that with Win7.