Microsoft's newest operating system (OS) Windows 7 is said to have sold 30 million copies in the last two months, the company said this week. The product, which was launched in Sri Lanka early last November, two or more weeks after its global debut; already had 8 million downloads to its credit before its local launch.
Attributing this revelation to remarks at the Morgan Stanley Technology Media & Telecom Conference by the company's Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein; the announcement reported: "Just two months after revealing that it had sold over 60 million copies of its new Windows 7 operating system in its first quarter of availability, Microsoft this week announced that it has now sold over 90 million copies. Windows 7 continues to be the fast selling OS release in PC history".
Further, again according to the Microsoft's announcement, this performance is not "surprising" given that the company's PC manufacturing partners "sell about 300 million devices a year, and Windows is installed on over 95 percent of them". Meanwhile, the reported Windows 7 sales of over 90 million have been attributed to a period of "just four months on the market plus a short pre-sale period from mid-2009".
Additionally, "Windows accounted for almost $7 billion of Microsoft's revenues in the [most recent quarter]", during which the company announced 'record' total revenues amounting to US$ $19 billion, up 43 percent year-over-year. |
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