Microsoft has announced that it is selling seven copies of Windows 7 every second, making it the fastest selling operating system in the company's history.
Notes Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft's in-house Windows blogger: "Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history."
The company has sold over 150 million Windows 7 licenses in the past 8 months, and LeBlanc says that 75 ... [ read the full article ]
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"IW adds that Microsoft may still have its hands full trying to convince IT managers to move from XP Pro to Windows 7, as the memory (or nightmare some would say) of Vista is still fresh."
More realistically, most IT managers are pushing to get windows 7 so they don't have to keep fixing the vista machines every week.
Agreed, I think they trying to boast in hopes of creating more sales; but in all honesty nobody freaking cares. Most people by 7 cause they need it, or are comfortable with it. Others will simply steal it, which is like 7 times the number its sells.
7 is not as bad as Vista, but like Mystic said, if people are comfortable with it, go for it. Personally I only use it to sync my iPhone; and as soon as that done I reboot and run back to Ubuntu; which until now, hasn't failed me like every Window$ OS out there did.
