The new OS "Windows 7" released on October 22 is about 2.5 times more popular than Windows Vista

On October 22 (Thursday) Microsoft's new OS "Windows 7" is on sale, about three weeks have passed. The NPD Group survey revealed that sales from Windows 7 on Thursday, October 22, were 234% higher than when Windows Vista was released in January 2007.

"Windows Vista" which is the OS before "Windows 7" introduced a wide variety of new features including widgets, but it is largely unpopular, and many people continue to use the previous OS "Windows XP" . Even those who purchased PCs equipped with Vista are unavoidable that there are many people who exercised the downgrade right and immediately changed the OS to Windows XP.

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Microsoft Windows 7 smashes sales records - Telegraph

Steven Baker, vice president of NPD Group said, "Microsoft seems to have started a big hit as a result of careful marketing and pre-ordering discounts," Vista said in January That's why there was a little advantage over Windows 7 released in October (the one in January can be sold ...) "added. The survey of NPD this time is the sales from October 17th to the 24th, including reservation sales, and it is clear that 7 showed 234% selling against Vista.

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer commented that the response to Windows 7 was "incredible." Said that Windows 7 brought vibrancy to new PC demand and became an example of important innovation in the technology market. "People do not buy an OS, they buy a PC with an operating system," Ballmer said.

It may be that the transition from XP will be advanced only to the operating system based on Vista's reflection.