It took about a year for Windows Vista to claim 10 percent market share, something it’s successor Windows 7 has managed in just three months. New data from Net Applications shows Microsoft’s (MSFT) latest operating system accounting for 1 in 10 computers accessing the Web as of the end of January.
Not much of a surprise, really since Microsoft said during last week’s earnings report that it shipped a record number of copies of Windows during the December quarter. The company has sold some 60 million Windows 7 licenses since launching the operating system on Oct. 22, with returning consumer demand driving a healthy 35 percent year-on-year increase in Windows licensing revenue for the quarter. Clearly, Windows 7 is on a nice hot streak right now — something that, I think it’s safe to say — never happened with Vista. But is that streak driven by the broader PC market rebound that began prior to the operating system’s launch or by Windows 7 itself?
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