He doesn’t give the exact number of activated licenses (why not?) but he does cite some rather astronomical PC sales in 2009. PC sales on Black Friday were up 63% over the same period in 2008 – and for the entire holiday period, 2009 saw 50% more PC sales than the year before. Incidentally, the graph at Net Applications show Windows 7 as having a 5.71% share in the operating system market, up from 4% in November.
It’s not particularly surprising, considering Windows *is *PC sales, but it still would’ve been nice to get some raw figures. In the mean time we’ll just have to rely on data gathered by outside sources like Net Applications. Did you notice that XP is losing users faster than Vista? I suppose that’s the die-hard Windows XP user base finally jumping ship to an operating system worthy of their money. Windows 7: The fastest selling operating system in history originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Re: Windows 7: The fastest selling operating system in history
I have the CDs for Win 7 but haven't bothered to upgrade from Vista since I didn't have any major issues with it. Just wondering what the verdict is from people who've been using it for a few months now?
Re: Windows 7: The fastest selling operating system in history
two (fairly reliable/advanced) end users reported that use A BIT older hardware that it works great in terms of speed, reliability and multitaskting.. using existing hardware in "xp compatibility mode" is actually faster according to them .. even since beta testing days, cousin is going on and on and in every family meet is trying me to convert...
That's just bad propaganda. Windows ME wasn't really an OS, it was just something bad, leaked out like a by-product :D
Windows 95 - success
Windows NT 4 - success
Windows 98 - Success
Windows 2000 - success
Windows XP - success
Windows Vista - failed at the beginning but was later fixed once SP's were released
Windows 7 - Success
Now on the server side:
* Windows NT 4 server - success
* Windows 2000 server - success
* Windows 2003 server - success
* Windows 2008 server - success
As you can see the overall progression has been excellent with a few hiccups along the way. I do agree that their timing sucks chunks and they are always playing catchup. But that success-failure-success theory is just some disgruntled pundit sitting around with an agenda. I propose to ban them :)
Re: Windows 7: The fastest selling operating system in history
I guess it depends on our definition of success. I define success as when an operating system puts comfort and dependability in the operator's mind. Each of those OS's sold very consistently. And each of those OS's kept gaining market share.
I have personally installed, maintained and troubleshot each of those OS's. Even though there have been times when I wouldn't have minded throwing the machine out the window but there were more times when they helped get the job done.
In comparison Linux is being praised by many. But don't forget that most of those admirers don't even know which Linux to install (forget about actually installing) much less what version. :D
Kidding aside, Linux and Mac's work pretty well, but when sh1t hits the fan even techies are left holding the bag and not knowing what happened.
I mostly agree with Tofi's take on this. On the whole, MS has been very successful in the OS arena. Having worked with multiple versions of Linux and Unix, I tend to see each OS having its own strengths and weaknesses, so you can't really discount an OS as a whole without analyzing its various features and comparing them with other OS.
My few additions to Tofi's list are as follows:
That's just bad propaganda. Windows ME wasn't really an OS, it was just something bad, leaked out like a by-product :D
Windows 3.1 (including windows for workgroups) - success
Windows 95 - success (revolutionary in multiple ways)
Windows NT 4 - success
Windows 98 - failed at the beginning, but Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) fixed most problems.* Windows ME - failed miserably, primarily due to multiple betas released in the same year, and MS's move to the NT kernel and lack of sustained support for ME (shelf life was around 8 - 9 months)
Windows 2000 - success
Windows XP - success
Windows Vista - failed at the beginning but was later fixed once SP's were released
Windows 7 - Success
Now on the server side:
* Windows NT 4 server - success
* Windows 2000 server - success
* Windows 2003 server - success
* Windows 2008 server - success
As you can see the overall progression has been excellent with a few hiccups along the way. I do agree that their timing sucks chunks and they are always playing catchup. But that success-failure-success theory is just some disgruntled pundit sitting around with an agenda. I propose to ban them :)
Re: Windows 7: The fastest selling operating system in history
well you guys are techies and all for the normal users they dont really know much. Linux unix windows NT server etc etc are really advanced stuff. i was just talking about an average user.
Re: Windows 7: The fastest selling operating system in history
I installed Windows 7 ultimate x64 on my Toshiba Laptop. My laptop is a pretty decent piece of hardware with T8100 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 Ghz, 3 GB RAM, 800 Mhz blah and blah. However never enjoyed using it with Vista Home premium x86. Vista just used to kill it, the machine used to be damn slow.
However things changed, Windows 7 is an amazing change from Vista, pure fast. I just started to love my laptop back.
I really wonder what did MS changed in this Win7 to make it fast.
Re: Windows 7: The fastest selling operating system in history
"windows 7 was my idea" they took advice from a gardening-senior, a sleeping college-going teenager who was worried about laptop crashing, an asian looking kid trying to take pics, making it look better , and sending it to family..
Re: Windows 7: The fastest selling operating system in history
ya no doubt about it..get windows 7. Honestly it's not a huge change, but it is an upgrade.
As for the fastest selling...win7 is more user-friendly and user-idea based as they claim it. However, I think MS is using Apple's strategy to make win7 a success
