Today, Microsoft are celebrating their first anniversary of Windows 7!
Read on…
When we launched Windows 7 on October 22 2009, it flew off the shelves, quickly hitting 100 million licenses in the first few months. And the excitement didn’t stop there!
Today, we’ve passed the incredible milestone of more than 240 million licenses of Windows 7 sold (That’s more than 7.6 copies sold EVERY SECOND!) making Windows 7 the fastest selling operating system (OS) in history!
In less than one year, Windows 7 has reached over 17 percent global market share* and as of September, Windows 7 is running on 93 percent of new consumer PCs.
Some fun Windows 7 stats:
In the last month alone, Windows 7 users have…
- Opened the start menu 14,139,925,439 times
- Used Aero Snap 150,957,478 times
- Used Aero Shake 20,555,528 times
- Used jump lists 339,129,958 times
- Pinned 12,643 unique applications to the taskbar and start menu
- There are 2,346,828 Windows 7 PCs that support touch interaction
- Terabytes of data synched between PC’s and the cloud: 500+
And as for businesses, in just five months, the number of IT Pros recommending Window 7 surpassed that of Windows XP. Today, nearly 90 percent of companies have already started their formal migrations to Windows 7. From Enterprises to small businesses, from electronics to cupcake shops, companies are underway with their Windows 7 deployments.
It’s been one incredible year and we thank you for sharing the journey with us. For more information, check out the Windows blog.
The Microsoft Windows 7 team
*According to Net Applications as of 1 October 2010