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Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 licenses sold in 21 months
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that Windows 7 has sold more than 400 million licenses so far, meaning it is still the fastest-selling operating system. Ballmer revealed the number at the Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), a four-day event that celebrates the accomplishments of the company's 640,000 global partners. Windows 7 has been available to the masses for 21 months.
Windows 7 actually grabbed 20 percent of the market at the end of 2010. Between January and December 2010, Windows XP fell almost 10 percentage points to 56.72 percent market share, Windows Vista lost over five percentage points to 12.11 percent, and Windows 7 gained over 13 percentage points,...
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Windows 8 to have the same system requirements as Windows 7
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Did you recently buy a new PC with Windows 7 on it? Are you interested in Windows 8? Are you worried you won't be able to upgrade your operating system? If you answered yes to all three, we have good news for you. Microsoft says Windows 8's system requirements will be the same, or perhaps even lower, than Windows 7's.
Tami Reller, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows division, revealed the tidbit to attendees at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, which took place yesterday in Los Angeles, California. She said any PC capable of running Windows 7 today would be capable of running Windows 8 when it is released.
"The breadth of hardware choice is unique to Windows and is...
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Microsoft Windows 7 license sales reach 400 million
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During his Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference keynote on Monday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the company has now sold 400 million Windows 7 licenses to date. Microsoft’s current operating system was first launched in October 2009, and it was welcomed with open arms as customers were eager to dump Vista following its troubled introduction. Despite an impressive 20 months for Windows 7, it is still far from being the world’s most used operating system. Windows XP’s share was near double Windows 7′s in June, though Microsoft did confirm on Monday that it would stop supporting the operating system 1,000 days from now. According to Net Applications, Microsoft’s Windows 7 operat...
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Ballmer talks up "dawning" of Windows tablets, as Windows 7 continues to sell well
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Ballmer has said that Windows 8, the company’s next version of its operating system will be the “dawning of Windows slates,” at the company’s annual Worldwide Partners Conference.
Taking to the stage to talk all things Microsoft, including admitting that Windows Phone 7 sales are still small, the CEO said of the new OS:
"Windows 8 really does represent a true re-imagining of Windows PCs and the dawning of Windows slates."
But it’s not all future, future, future. Ballmer also used the conference to also confirm that the company had sold over 400 million Windows 7 licences around the world, and find time to take a pop at Apple and Linux:
"We're selling a lot of Windows and we've got a lot of c...
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Windows Much Safer After Microsoft Killed Autorun
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Autorun is one way for malware to trick a user into installing some nefarious software from removable storage media. An executable could reside on a USB flash drive and, when inserted into a PC, would prompt the user to click the autorun file.
Back in February, Microsoft released an update that curbed autorun behavior for all supported Windows platforms stretching back to Windows XP SP3 to Windows Vista SP2 (Windows 7 already had a "fixed" autorun behavior and Windows XP SP2 was no longer supported through updates).
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Microsoft: 350 million Windows 7 licenses sold in 18 months
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Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 has sold more than 350 million licenses so far, meaning it is still the fastest-selling operating system. Windows 7 has been available to the masses for 18 month...
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Windows 7 (Finally) Beats Windows XP's U.S. Desktop Share
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Someone get the party balloons and slap a big "7" on them, for Windows 7 has finally overtaken its younger brother, Windows XP, in desktop market share. For those keeping score at home or running an o...
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Users Complain Abount Buggy Windows 7 SP1
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Users Complain Abount Buggy Windows 7 SP1 : We are noticing more and more reports about Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 SP1 upgrade problems.
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Fujitsu Launches a Windows 7 Tablet for €699
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Fujitsu Launches a Windows 7 Tablet for €699 : There’s no shortage of Android tablets available, so when it comes to slates running Windows, Redmond is a little outnumbered. Today Fujitsu threw is thr...
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Windows 7 SP1 Released, Available for Download
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It's been talked about since the very original release of Windows 7 and now it's finally here. That's right, if you've been holding off on Windows 7 until the first Service Pack, today is the day that...
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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Available Today to the Common Man
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The wait is over, folks. If you're not a TechNet subscriber and/or wanted no part of playing around with a non-final release of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7, then today's your day. Microsoft today mad...
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Microsoft Finally Turns Off AutoRun in Latest Windows Update
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In addition to releasing a large number of security updates on Tuesday, Microsoft released an important change to the behavior of Windows XP and Windows Vista. Windows will not run or offer to run pro...
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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 finally ready to ship
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Microsoft will reveal the Service Pack 1 (SP1) update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is ready for a release later on today, ZDNet learned on Wednesday. Sources said the official RTM (release...
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Microsoft rolls out copy and paste update to Windows Phone 7 developers
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There's still no word on a public release, but Microsoft has now finally at least given Windows Phone 7 developers the long-awaited gift of copy and paste. That word comes straight from Microsoft's di...
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Windows 7 SP1 RTM Leaks – Official Release Expected Very Soon
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The Windows 7 RC has been available since late October, but a leaked copy of the official release has us fairly convinced we can expect to see Windows Update pushing out the final build by the end of ...
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