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Windows 7 hits 350 million licenses sold

article published on 22 April, 2011

Microsoft has celebrated the 18-month anniversary of the release of Windows 7 this week, and let go some figures about the OS. The software giant says they have sold 350 million licenses of Windows 7, making it the fastest selling OS of all-time, and probably the fastest selling piece of software of all-time, as well. 90 percent of businesses have migrated or are migrating to Windows ... [ read the full article ]

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22. April 2011 @ 20:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"licenses sold" = mostly how many new computers were sold that happened to include it.

There's a reason MS usually refuses to talk about how many copies of Windows get sold by itself.
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23. April 2011 @ 00:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Don't forget all the technet plus customers...$200 for 10 licenses of each version of windows 7...that is a lot of windows 7 licenses for less than the price of just one retail copy of Ultimate, so people buy a pack of over 100 licenses just for 2-3 computers sometimes.


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24. April 2011 @ 00:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Can't see Win8 taking off for desktops.

That's one marketing ploy that's likely to flop al la Vista.

"Now with even MORE DRM!"

Its a lot easier being righteous than right.

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24. April 2011 @ 18:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by KillerBug:
Don't forget all the technet plus customers...$200 for 10 licenses of each version of windows 7...that is a lot of windows 7 licenses for less than the price of just one retail copy of Ultimate, so people buy a pack of over 100 licenses just for 2-3 computers sometimes.
Yeah but do they have to renew each year?
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