Redmond’s claim that sales of its new operating system go as expected, although the corporate side is still not being taken as they wanted.
Five months after its enactment, Windows 7 continues to maintain a good adoption in the consumermarket, not for theprofessional. This has been indicated in a conference Peter Klein, chief financial officer atMicrosoft. That yes, predicts a recovery this year.
“The corporate market has been dormant for quite some time and expenditures have been minimal. However, this is the year of recovery and businesses have more monetary resources to invest in new solutions. ” According to Klein, the recovery will begin during this year and will stabilize in the next, although not stated whether it will be fast or slow.
In any case, sales of Windows 7 have been maintained as provided by the company, especially in the consumer segment. Since October 2009 has sold 90 millioncopies. This amount represents a substantial improvement in the numbers reported last January, when the company indicated that it had sold 60 million copies, which means that in just a month have left 30 million copies of Microsoft’s factories.
A study by Net Applications found that Windows 7 is installed on a 7.57% of U.S. computers, but Windows XP keeps hegemony with a 66.15%. The umpire, Windows Vista, holds a 17.47% share and Mac OS X or 2.37%.
As published at the time, sales of Windows 7 have helped significantly in the company’s record results.
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