[The Silent Warrior]

Initial sales of Microsoft’s Windows 7 boxed software surpassed those of Vista’s first few days on the U.S. market.

According to NPD’s weekly tracking service, Windows 7 software unit sales in the U.S. were 234 percent higher than Vista’s first few days of sales. Revenue growth wasn’t as strong though. A combination of early discounts on pre-sales and a lack of promotional activity for the Ultimate version resulted in dollar sales that were 82 percent higher than Vista.

“A combination of factors impacted Windows 7 PC sales at the outset, but the trajectory of overall PC sales is very strong leading into the holiday season,” said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at NPD. “Vista had a slight advantage at launch, as January traditionally has a bigger sales footprint than October. The other hurdle Windows 7 faced was sales of PCs with older operating systems (XP and Vista) were high, making up 20 percent of sales during the Windows 7 launch, compared to just 6 percent of older operating sales during Vista’s launch week.”

Source: NPD

[K.L.Devine]

Because of the pre-order offer..

[poolsharkzz]

K.L.Devine, on 06 November 2009 - 11:49 AM, said:

Because of the pre-order offer..

That and the fact that Vista sucks and there is a lot of Laptops, Notebooks, and these new Netbooks that Windows 7 will run very well on.

Make good sense to me!

poolsharkzz

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