Windows 7 Adoption Grows Fast

Windows 7 is breaking exisiting sales records. Here are a few recent online articles discussing the Windows 7 adoption growth:

Microsoft Boosted as Windows 7 Sales Outpace Vista

Early sales of Windows 7 suggest that shoppers are switching to Microsoft’s new operating system in their droves, shrugging off the cloud cast by its predecessor, Windows Vista.

Windows 7 Sales Boosted by Pre-orders, Smashes Vista

After outselling Harry Potter in pre-orders, Windows 7 creams Vista too.

Huge pre-order sales of  Windows 7 have seen Microsoft’s new operating system out-do its disastrous predecessor Windows Vista by a whopping 243 per cent.

Windows 7 Early Adoption Rate Outpaces Vista’s

Windows 7 has broken the 4% market share barrier in less than three weeks, a mark that took Windows Vista five months to reach, a Web metrics company said today.

According to Net Applications, Windows 7 has crossed the 4% line in the California company’s daily tracking of operating system usage. By comparison, Vista was under 1% a month after its late-January 2007 release to retail, and didn’t exceed 4% until June of that year.

Windows 7 Usage Outpaces Vista, Closes In on Mac

There’s a new sign Windows 7 is off to a strong start: Web surfers have started moving to the operating system much more quickly than they did its troubled predecessor, Windows Vista.

A new research report says Windows 7 on Saturday surpassed 4% of all devices visiting Web sites that day, a little over two weeks after the commercial launch of the product. It took Windows Vista, in contrast, about seven months to pass 4% after it was introduced to businesses in November 2006, according to the report from Net Applications, a firm that tracks online usage.

Microsoft Windows 7 Smashes Sales Records

Research firm NPD Group said Microsoft users were switching from Windows XP and Windows Vista to Windows 7 in significant numbers. Sales of Windows 7 in the days following its Oct 22 release were 234 per cent higher than those posted by Vista when it was launched in January 2007.

Windows 7 Versus Apple: The Great Computer Software Battle

There’s no escaping it: Windows Vista was a disaster. Launched in 2007, Microsoft’s follow-up to the massively successful Windows XP software, which powers the vast majority of the world’s computers, met with lukewarm reviews and terrible customer satisfaction ratings.

Regards

Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP