Windows 7: 300 Million Licenses Sold

Today as part of our Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2011 earnings release, we announced that Windows 7 has sold over 300 million licenses to-date.

To put that in perspective, 300 million is roughly the combined number of households in North American and in Europe! Or, to put it another way, if you lined up 300 million Windows 7 product boxes, they would stretch nearly 1.5 times around the Earth!

As of today, over 20% of Internet-connected PCs worldwide are running Windows 7 according to Net Applications.

We continue to see fantastic momentum and excitement for Windows 7. CES earlier this month was also very exciting for us where we also talked a bit about Windows 7 momentum and showcased a lot of work our partners are doing. You can see all our CES 2011 blog content here which includes the amazing videos from Ben with partners. We also continue to see strong momentum with business customers with nearly 90% of enterprise businesses already making the move to Windows 7.

For more on what was announced during today’s earnings conference call, click here.

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I thank you for your post. I find it quite interesting in view of what a lot of folks have said, namely, that Win7 is basically Vista with a lot of "window dressing".

There MUST be more to Win7 than "window dressing" if so many people prefer it over Vista.

I have Vista Ultimate and am not thinking of upgrading. Luckily I have not experienced even one of the many problems that I have heard a lot of others have had.