Microsoft has announced their quarterly earnings today, claiming their highest-ever quarterly revenue, thanks directly to strong sales of the Windows 7 operating system.
The company sold 60 million copies of the new OS, and overall net income jumped 60 percent year-on-year to $6.66 billion USD.
In comparison, Vista took four months to sell 40 million copies, and sales slowed from there on out.
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Originally posted by domie: I find myself asking myself - those people in this thread who say Windows 7 is an upgraded polished version of Vista - have you actually used the two systems ? Have you seen the source code ?
No, I didn't think so.
i have had both 64bit verisions for a long time.
and yes look at the kernal, windows 2000 was NT5.0 and xp was just the facelift to that being NT5.1
then vista was the BIG upgrade form that to NT6.0 and win7 is the minor one to that, being NT6.1 which the biggest improvement i have seen is the library system, which i like alot. That and implementation of DXVA.
and i can imagine when windows NT7 (windows 8?) people will hate it till NT7.1 Lol
