{"id":542809,"date":"2010-04-25T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T18:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/?p=23714"},"modified":"2010-04-27T09:41:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:41:01","slug":"more-than-100-million-windows-7-licences-sold-in-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542809","title":{"rendered":"More Than 100 Million Windows 7 Licences Sold in 6 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/Windows7Sells90MillionCopies_F087\/windows7.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Windows-7-Touch-Pack\" \/> We all know that Windows 7 has been selling like <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/latest-news\/windows-7-is-the-fastest-selling-os-in-the-history.html\" title=\"Fastest Selling OS Ever\">hot cakes<\/a> since its release. However, the exact volume was up for debate. Now, Microsoft has revealed that so far more than 100 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To put that in context, more than 10% of all PCs worldwide are already running Windows 7 today. That\u2019s amazing!&#8221;, wrote Brandon LeBlanc, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/blogs\/windows7\/archive\/2010\/04\/22\/more-than-10-of-all-pcs-worldwide-now-on-windows-7.aspx\"  title=\"More than 10% of all PCs worldwide now on Windows 7\">Windows 7 Team blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Windows XP is still proving to be immensely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msfn.org\/news_story\/100_million_windows_7_licenses_sold_.html\" title=\"100 Million Windows 7 Licenses Sold\">sticky<\/a>. According to Net Applications, 64.5% PCs are still on the decade old operating system, while only about ten percent are on Windows Vista.<\/p>\n<p>Riding on the back of strong Windows 7 sales, Microsoft&#8217;s net profit for the previous quarter soared to $4.01 billion.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px\">\n<strong>Share:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/microsoft\/100-million-windows-7-licences.html#commentrespond\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Comment on This Post<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?source=techiebuzz&#038;status=More%20Than%20100%20Million%20Windows%207%20Licences%20Sold%20in%206%20Months%20http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FaRsZWA%20via%20@techiebuzzer\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Tweet This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/microsoft\/100-million-windows-7-licences.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Share on Facebook<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/microsoft\/100-million-windows-7-licences.html&#038;title=More%20Than%20100%20Million%20Windows%207%20Licences%20Sold%20in%206%20Months\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Save to Delicious<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/microsoft\/100-million-windows-7-licences.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Stumble This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&#038;url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/microsoft\/100-million-windows-7-licences.html&#038;title=More%20Than%20100%20Million%20Windows%207%20Licences%20Sold%20in%206%20Months\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Digg This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/microsoft\/100-million-windows-7-licences.html&#038;title=More%20Than%20100%20Million%20Windows%207%20Licences%20Sold%20in%206%20Months\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Reddit This<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong style=\"font-size:11px;\">TAGS:<\/strong> <span style=\"text-transform:uppercase;font-size:11px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/windows-7\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 7<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/windows-xp\" rel=\"tag\">Windows XP<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/small><\/div>\n<div style=\"background:#E1E1E1; border: dotted 1px; padding:5px; margin-top:5px;font-size:11px\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/microsoft\/100-million-windows-7-licences.html\" title=\"More Than 100 Million Windows 7 Licences Sold in 6 Months\">More Than 100 Million Windows 7 Licences Sold in 6 Months<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\" title=\"Techie Buzz\">Techie Buzz<\/a> written by Pallab De on Sunday 25th April 2010 02:39:24 PM. 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However, the exact volume was up for debate. Now, Microsoft has revealed that so far more than 100 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold. &#8220;To put that in context, more than 10% of all PCs worldwide are already running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}