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240 million Windows 7 licenses sold in a year, happy birthday Windows 7!

October 22nd, 2010        
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240 million Windows 7 licenses sold in a year, happy birthday Windows 7!

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Microsoft’s Windows 7, and what’s more to celebrate this grand birthday than with a big number celebration tagging along? Yes, in this one year since the release of Windows 7, Microsoft has sold 240 million licenses of it.

Brandon LeBlanc, a Microsoft spokesman, calls it “the fastest selling operating system in history” in a blog post.

“Six months after launch, 100 percent (over 18,000) of our OEM partners were selling Windows 7 PCs versus 70 percent for Windows Vista PCs at a comparable time period,” LeBlanc wrote.

Earlier this month, Microsoft brought back the Windows 7 Family Pack, which provides upgrade licenses to Windows 7 Home Premium for up to three devices for $149.99. It is available now in the U.S.; after Oct. 22, the family pack offering will expand to Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, Australia and other international markets.

Several Microsoft employees posted their seven favourite features about Windows 7 on the company’s blog. To commemorate the anniversary, LeBlanc asked people to do the same in the comments section for a chance to win a full copy of Windows 7 Ultimate (and some Microsoft stickers). You have until 8am Pacific on Oct. 27 to submit your thoughts.

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  • satel

    240 Million? Is that counting OEM? If so that is honestly quite pathetic. When you look at the number of new machines sold around the world each day and the fact that it is damn near impossible to get your hands on XP now, 240 million is pretty damn small.

  • http://www.2dayblog.com Rie

    yes, that includes OEM. erm… that’s nearly 658k licenses sold per day, which is quite impressive already.

    perhaps i can try my best to explain, i hope i can. when windows 7 was released, vista premium users were given free license upgrade, but not all of them does that. i can safely say that over half of the buyers don’t even know they have that privilege to upgrade it for free, and some are put off by the delivery fee (yes, they really don’t know what they’re missing).

    what’s more, when windows 7 was out, not all netbooks are running them, as there’s still a huge amount of windows xp shipped preloaded with netbooks, until microsoft stopped ODMs from doing that.

    now, the biggest reason that i could think of is that, there’s also some portion (not small too) of ODM systems shipped with dos (means there’s no windows preloaded), and many retailers loaded them with pirated OS. might not happen in the US and UK, but widely done in some under developed or even developing countries.