{"id":12718,"date":"2010-04-26T13:14:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T07:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=12718"},"modified":"2020-05-24T10:29:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:59:03","slug":"windows-7-fastest-selling-os-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/windows-7-fastest-selling-os-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"10% PCs Run Windows 7: Fastest Selling OS in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is anyone buying Windows 7?<\/strong> Microsoft says Windows 7 is selling out and more than 10% of all PCs worldwide are running Windows 7 making it the fastest-selling operating system in history!<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft reported its record third quarter revenues of $14.50 billion for the quarter ended Mar. 31, 2010, a 6% increase from the same period of the prior year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>Windows 7 continues to be a growth engine<\/strong>, but we also saw strong growth in other areas like Bing search, Xbox LIVE and our emerging cloud services,\u201d said Peter Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft. \u201cOur record third-quarter revenue along with continued rigor on cost management resulted in exceptional EPS growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows revenue was up 28%<\/strong>, compared with the same quarter a year earlier, driven by strong demand for Windows 7. More than <strong>10% of all PCs worldwide are running Windows 7<\/strong> today, making Windows 7 by far the fastest-selling operating system in history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusiness customers are beginning to refresh their desktops and the momentum of Windows 7 continues to be strong,\u201d said Kevin Turner, chief operating officer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Windows Team confirms that &#8220;Exactly 6 months after the launch on October 22, 2009, we\u2019ve sold well over <strong>100 million licenses<\/strong> of Windows 7. To put that in context, more than 10% of all PCs worldwide are already running Windows 7 today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year you could download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/download-windows-7-rc-free\/\">Window 7 release candidate free<\/a> to test and try. Now you can download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/download-windows-7-upgrade-advisor\/\">upgrade advisor<\/a> and see if you can upgrade your Windows Vista to Windows 7. And if you are already on Windows 7, download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/download-microsoft-touch-pack-for-windows-7-touch-devices\/\">Microsoft TouchPack for Windows 7<\/a> for touch enabled devices. I guess all those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/host-windows-7-launch-party\/\">Windows 7 parties<\/a> worked in selling out Windows 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone buying Windows 7? Microsoft says Windows 7 is selling out and more than 10% of all PCs worldwide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}