Hey just heard about something great and wanted to share with you guys. Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history and just passed Windows Vista to become the second most used operating system in the world. Can you believe it? According to Janco Associates, the Operating system is continuing to post incredible sales numbers for Microsoft.
Windows 7 is perhaps Microsoft’s best operating system with its amendable features. Its relative lack of conventional compatibility issues and slick features comes as a relief to a regimented program of public beta testing and stricter hardware partner requirements. Other websites and blogs wrote that the operating system is already the key factor driving Microsoft profits over the last two quarters, and the fastest selling operating system in history. Now it has reached a very impressive mark and Windows 7 has passed Windows Vista just in 7 months.
According to Denver-based technology research firm Janco Partners Inc., Windows 7 has achieved a 14.8 percent share of the international computer market which means Windows Vista never passed its predecessor, Windows XP. Hence growing at over twice the speed of Windows Vista in its early months, Windows 7 seems predestine to pass Windows XP, an operating system which, after a couple of Service Packs became one of Microsoft’s most well-liked operating systems of all time.
Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis quoted, “There are now more users of Windows 7 than Vista. That is a major factor in their improved record earnings. The last OS that was accepted as quickly in the market was XP. Vista’s market share has peaked, and is in the process of being decommissioned in most enterprises.”
Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome have been the biggest emerging threats to Microsoft’s browser dominance. The European Union’s decision to force Microsoft to let users choose their browser upon installation of Windows 7 reportedly has hurt the company’s market share further, sending it to the lowest levels since 1998. Besides, even rival Apple has been forced to turn down the Windows 7 on Boot Camp.
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