Windows 7 Sells 300 Million Licensed Copies in 15 Months

We have the Windows 7 total sells number in our hand. Windows 7 was released in 2009 22 October. Since than Microsoft sells 300 million copies of Windows 7 until December of 2010. We also informed earlier that Windows 7 sells number in 1st 1 year was 240 million.

Microsoft reported its Q2 earnings on 27 January mentioning that with the success of the Kinect motion sensor, earned Microsoft $19.95 billion for the quarter that finished at the end of December.

Microsoft COO Kevin Turner Says:

“Windows 7 continues to be the fastest-growing operating system in history, and our recent System on a Chip announcement demonstrates our commitment that Windows will have the power and flexibility to run everywhere and on every device.”

Statcounter shows that over 27% PCs worldwide are running on Windows 7 now. It includes both the licensed and pirated version. Here we can clearly see that how Windows 7 gaining pace with the decreasing number of Windows XP and Windows Vista users.