Microsoft: Windows 7 Sells 90 Million Copies

[I am Penguin]

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Microsoft reported sales of 90 million copies of Windows 7 at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Tuesday.

The 90-million sales figure, announced by Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein at the San Francisco-based event, represented a significant increase over a previous report. In late January, Microsoft indicated that 60 million Windows 7 licenses had been sold through the end of its fiscal second quarter.

Klein said that there was a continuing momentum for Windows 7, which he called the "fastest selling operating system in history." He made similar comments during Microsoft's 2Q announcement.

Interesting sales figures!

 

[Roadrunner]

Not bad. If you make the average price about R1,400 per licence and multiply that by 90 million, you get to R126,000,000,000.

That is USD 16,841,840,996.80 at today's exchange rate.

Wonder what the ratio is of the Basic vs. Ultimate licences sold? This number would make the calculation even more accurate.

 

[Conradl]

You also have to factor in Volume licenses which are often much cheaper when compared to the OEM/Retail price, which should decrease the revenue....

 

[gentleman1]

60 million Windows 7 licenses but how many are pirated?

 

[Mars]

I want to know how many of those are oem....
Its not like I could have bought my laptop with xp. I probably wouldn't have, but still...