14 DAY TRIAL // The number of Windows 7 sold licenses has jumped by no less than 60 million in the past few months after Microsoft celebrated the 1 year anniversary of the operating system.
According to the latest statistics from the Redmond company, the RTM version of Windows 7 has passed the 300 million sold copies milestone.
This while the software giant has been busy wrapping up the first Service Pack for the platform, an upgrade that neither end users nor business customers seem all that interested in.
“To put that in perspective, 300 million is roughly the combined number of households in North American and in Europe! Or, to put it another way, if you lined up 300 million Windows 7 product boxes, they would stretch nearly 1.5 times around the Earth!,” Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc stated.
Back in October 2010, with Windows 7 on the market for an entire year, the software giant had revealed that some 240 million licenses had already shipped to customers worldwide.
While I have seen end users embrace the operating system without hesitation, I’ve also witnessed enterprise customers jumping on the Windows bandwagon, especially those that dodged Windows Vista.
It’s my best guess that strong sales on both the consumer and enterprise fronts have contributed to the strong market success of Windows 7.
“As of today, over 20% of Internet-connected PCs worldwide are running Windows 7 according to Net Applications,” LeBlanc added.
“We continue to see fantastic momentum and excitement for Windows 7. CES earlier this month was also very exciting for us where we also talked a bit about Windows 7 momentum and showcased a lot of work our partners are doing.
“We also continue to see strong momentum with business customers with nearly 90% of enterprise businesses already making the move to Windows 7.”