At CES 2010, Ballmer revealed that Windows 7 was the fastest selling operating system in history, by far. According to the company’s CEO, the latest iteration of Windows also helped boost computer sales, as the number of PCs sold in the week of Windows 7’s launch exploded by 50%.
Microsoft is indicating that Windows 7 is nothing short of a smashing commercial success. And yet, while the Redmond company is indeed sharing a few statistics with the public, it isn’t really sharing those that count more, namely the actual number of Windows 7 licenses sold to customers, or at least those shipped into the channel. At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chief Executive Office Steve Ballmer noted that it was a combination of the work done by over 3,000 Microsoft engineers along with feedback from more than 8 million Beta testers that helped make Windows 7 what it was. In 2009, the software giant noted that Windows 7 had out-sold Windows Vista by 234%, comparing sales figures after launch.
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