Microsoft sells more than 90 million copies of Windows 7

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Gilgamesh said:

kitler53 said:
so is this good or bad? it's hard to digest these numbers without a benchmark.

anecdotal: my company is moving to windows 7 this june-ish. we completely skipped vista for whatever reason but our IT seems happy enough with 7.

By October of 2009 vista sold about 400 million and it was the second most widely used Windows behind XP. It had about 20% of the market share, while XP had about 63% of the market share.

Interestingly enough, according to W3Schools, Win7 (13.0%) is rapidly gaining on Vista (14.3%) in web use. Since almost all Vista/7 computers are online, that is a pretty good benchmark of how they're doing in the market.

I installed Win7 64 last week. I'm loving it. It's the best OS MS has released, period, especially in the first year. XP was crap until SP1 and then it was mostly crap until SP2. Every other OS has had massive problems upon launch.