According to Microsoft’s director of marketing Craig Beilinson, “Windows 7 is by far the fastest selling Operating System in history.” And while Beilinson doesn’t offer specific numbers, we’re not terribly surprised by the claim.
Consider that after only having been out for a few weeks, 41 per cent of US Lifehacker readers were using Windows 7 as their main OS — a number that’s likely only grown. We realise the folks who read Lifehacker are often early adopters, but it’s still a mind-blowing adoption rate.
Richard
Friday, January 8, 2010 at 10:16 AMI wonder how that calculate their sales fingers…do they break them down into OEM installs and self install kits. That would be interesting to see the breakdown, but I can’t see MS releasing this.
Josh
Friday, January 8, 2010 at 8:01 PMWhat a great marketing ploy! Don’t release a decent consumer OS since XP (2001) and then brag about how fast people want to get rid of Vista by saying 7 is the fastest selling in history! The Nazis couldn’t have marketed it better
url404
Monday, January 11, 2010 at 12:45 PMVista should have been called “Windows New XP” then 7 could have been “Windows XP Classic”.
Also, I am calling Godwin’s law on you.
Jake
Friday, January 8, 2010 at 10:21 PMMaybe that’s just because they were so desperate to leave Vista. :P
Nathan Orlick
Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 9:22 PMI’m using 7 as my gaming OS because it was so easy to pirate.