Microsoft Posts Records on Over 60M Win 7 Sold

[elbert]

Where is the edit? Over a span of was my intent.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Looks like all the people who skipped Vista are buying now.

 

[dheadley]

I would say that it includes OEM computer sales and OEM trade up coupons from Vista for machines purchased last year before the release also. Plus Microsoft has always been known for stuffing the channel and counts all of those copies sent into the channel as sold. Which I guess they are in a way, just not by an end user. Most Wal-mart, Target and Best Buy stores probably have 5-10 copies minimum on the shelf. Still that is a huge number to hit so fast, so good for them. With over a billion computers supposedly in use around the world that's only like 5-6% of all computers so far but it is a good start.

 

[Nexus52085]

[citation][nom]Thor[/nom]This is not surprising that Microsoft makes so much money.It robs people selling products to 100 times (or more) their real value.Since she has the absolute monopoly, not tomorrow it's going to change.And some Microsoft employees must be billions of dollars in tax havens.We are truly living in hell.While the rich get richer, the poor are more numerous.Human stupidity really is infinite ...[/citation]
The rich get richer because they know the rules and work with it. The poor get poorer because they don't know what the rules are.

 

[back_by_demand]

Caption Contest!!! Just off screen is Steve Jobs and Ballmer says:-

"Eat my OS, cancer boy!!!"

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]Nexus52085[/nom]The rich get richer because they know the rules and work with it. The poor get poorer because they don't know what the rules are.[/citation]
Not for long...as the liberals and democrats will spend more of the middle-class's money to make SURE the poor live...more like middle class.

 

[cmartin011]

about time! i hope Windows 8 is at least semi revolutionary maybe a fresh note pad with linux and all the problems of the past in mind. Maybe design some Artificial Intelligence into it when dealing with interfacing with hardware that's out dated. able to probe an create generic drivers for legacy devices on the fly with some smart programing. Able to learn from a different stand point to fix software to hardware or soft to soft problems by not crashing out the kernel and the AI.

 

[Elementgreen]

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[Belardo]

[citation][nom]mayne92[/nom]Not for long...as the liberals and democrats will spend more of the middle-class's money to make SURE the poor live...more like middle class.[/citation]

LOL.... uh, your funny. If you actually cared to do research, you'd know that since Reagan, every republican president has SPENT the most money and put us in debt. Uh, remember, Clinton had a surplus. GOP has been in power for 8 years... really good track record there buddy.

What, you thought the Iraq war based on lies that cost the lives of 5000+ Americans was free? We've borrowed money from China to pay for the war in Iraq... how retarded is that? And China is lending less and less money... Yeah, Communist China is keeping the US afloat and that is sick.

 

[Belardo]

Now if Windows7 was sold for $50 for upgrades... that would be cool and would be a good as an apology for vista.

 

[photoguru]

Economic policies that the government passes take a few years to make an impact... so the whole "this president had surplus and that president had debt" doesn't really make a ton of sense. Arguing on the actual programs or economic decisions themselves is a measurable argument because you can see the outcome of each individually.

Truth is... the U.S. is in waaayyy too much debt, and our current policies that are being passed will only push us further down. Sometimes I wonder if our government now assumes that we will be less likely to be targeted if we destroy ourselves instead 😛

 

[bourgeoisdude]

I love the way that people can turn Tom's hardware articles into political debates

 

[saran008]

windows 7 rocks with its solid performance and stability

It's just the begining

 

[jfplopes]

The thing is this not only means a big success on the OS part. There are a lot of people buying new PCs and just to give you guys an idea the latest numbers show that in the gamer side the latest game centric surveys show that more than half of the computers surveyed already have DirectX 10 capable graphics card. A great sign that developers can make the jump.

 

[bison88]

Awesome deal, I can't wait to load it this summer when I get that free time to do a full install. If only consumers could adopt x64 platform too.

 

[maestintaolius]

[citation][nom]photoguru[/nom]Economic policies that the government passes take a few years to make an impact... so the whole "this president had surplus and that president had debt" doesn't really make a ton of sense. Arguing on the actual programs or economic decisions themselves is a measurable argument because you can see the outcome of each individually.Truth is... the U.S. is in waaayyy too much debt, and our current policies that are being passed will only push us further down. Sometimes I wonder if our government now assumes that we will be less likely to be targeted if we destroy ourselves instead[/citation]

Disclaimer: Libertarian, so I think both you elephants and donkeys are full of it. Anyway...

Statements like this just drive me nuts. Right now, if one was to watch fair and balanced coverage, you'd hear that the deficit problems right now are all Obama's fault but anything good during the Clinton years were because "economic policies take time to implement". So the good stuff during the end of the Clinton years was merely the delayed results of Reagan's policies but the current bad stuff is Obama and not Bush. So, if I understand it correctly, if something good happens with the deficit it's republicans, but if it's bad it's democrats regardless of when or what actually happens. Reminds me of John Oliver's bit on "Terror-Ball".

Anyway, good for MS, I like win 7. I get a little grumpy sometimes when I try to find something in the Control Panel, luckily I know how to access most anything using Run...

 

[chrisv815]

That will be short lived. now that the discontinued the family pack the number will slow down greatly. If only they had warned people.

 

[G-Systems]

[citation][nom]Thor[/nom]This is not surprising that Microsoft makes so much money.It robs people selling products to 100 times (or more) their real value.Since she has the absolute monopoly, not tomorrow it's going to change.And some Microsoft employees must be billions of dollars in tax havens.We are truly living in hell.While the rich get richer, the poor are more numerous.Human stupidity really is infinite ...[/citation]


Huh? You know that this is an informative article on the sale of Microsoft's latest Operating System, right? You know that Microsoft's last OS didn't do as well as their one before that, right?

I guess in the end, I'm asking: "WTF are you talking about?"