According to the leading market research company, The NPD Group, Windows 7 sales in the USA for the week of October 18-24 have exceeded those of its predecessor (Window Vista) by 234%. This figure includes the pre-orders of Windows 7, which had – surprisingly - outsold UK Amazon’s own ”Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” novels as Robert B mentioned earlier. Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at NPD, explained:
Microsoft’s program of early low-cost pre-sales, high visibility marketing, and aggressive deals helped make the Windows 7 software launch successful…
Microsoft is definitely overjoyed to hear about the current success of its latest operating system. In fact, it has pointed out this news on The Windows Blog.
This was regarding the sales of Windows 7 retail boxes. But what about those of PC hardware? Despite the fact that PC sales growth was at its peak for the third quarter, it wasn’t strong enough to beat that of Windows Vista’s. For those who prefer to deal with numbers, PC sales were less by 6% compared to those of Windows Vista during the first few days after its launch.
In my opinion, sales of Windows 7 are going well overall. However, I’m more excited to see how the market share of Windows 7 will be. It has already broken the 3% barrier, which is a good indication. Nevertheless, I totally agree with Andrew when he exclaimed:
Windows 98 still has 0.11% marketshare. Really, you guys? How are you even using the Internet with that OS? Makes me wonder how much longer Windows XP will be around…
I guess we’ll have to wait several months before we can answer the question: Will Windows 7′s market share surpass that of the eight year-old Windows XP? Personally, I’ll be pleased to see this happen. What about you?
Heopfully when windows 8 comes around, MS will learn from the 7 E problems, with upgrades. And make the UK prices cheap. And then again windows 8 will have good sales.
I really appreciate not being ripped off in the UK.
I like that windows 7 market share is more successful than thats of windows vista, but we should realize that there are poor people who cant afford to buy every new version of windows.
I think that Windows 7 will easily surpass Windows XP sales wise. It may take a little while but I predict by 2011, XP will be history. We just need to see the Windows Server 2008 marketing team get into high gear and explain the integration points between the two a little bit more forcefully.
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I am not surprised at all. Windows 7 is a great OS running good even on an old machine… I dont get why people still stick to XP when they have stronger computers