We all know how successful Windows 7 has proven to be since it was released last October and in those 8 months since it’s release, Microsoft have managed to sell an impressive 150 million copies of it.
Microsoft announced the incredible milestone on their Windows Team Blog, those 150 million sales figures, translate into approximately 7 copies of Windows 7 being sold each second! Oh the Irony! Windows 7 reached the 100 million mark only 2 months ago, so it appears sales are really beginning to pick up big time now for Microsoft.
The increase in sales likely reflects a general increase in enterprise technology spending, which means not only do Microsoft benefit from all this, but so do hardware manufacturers.
These translate into sales figures of about 25 million licenses a month, and according to Microsoft that rate is still increasing. Looking back, the previous sales figures were just 10 million a month. In March a total of 90 Million copies had been sold, and then by April 100 million had been sold.
The blog post also states an important observation in that “between companies actively deploying and evaluating it, approximately 75 percent of enterprises are looking at Windows 7 for their organization” This was never the case with Windows Vista and it’s one of the many reasons why it never took off like Windows 7 has.
So despite Steve Jobs putting down PC’s, it seems they are still selling like hotcakes. Microsoft recently reported that 365 million PC’s are sold each year, that’s a million a day!
