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Microsoft has sold over 60 million Windows 7 licenses, Q2 results

Tom Warren
28 January 2010 - 21:50
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Microsoft today announced a record revenue for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009. Microsoft confirmed it had sold more than 60 million Windows 7 licenses in the second quarter making it the fastest selling operating system in history.

The revenue increase was a 14% increase from the same period of the prior year resulting in $19.02 billion revenue for the second quarter. Microsoft tipped strong Windows 7 sales as a reason for the 14% increase. “Exceptional demand for Windows 7 led to the positive top-line growth for the company,” said Peter Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009."

“This is a record quarter for Windows units,” said Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at Microsoft. “We are thrilled by the consumer reception to Windows 7 and by business enthusiasm to adopt Windows 7.”

Microsoft's earnings per share were 74 cents which represented an increase of 57%  when compared with the prior year period.

Microsoft released Windows 7 on October 22, 2009. The latest operating system has received praise from consumers, businesses and the media. In November 2009, Windows 7 managed to surpass Apple's Snow Leopard market share in just two weeks.

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  1. Leroy Jethro Gibbs - 28 January 2010 - 21:51

    Amazing :)

  2. GP007 - 28 January 2010 - 21:53

    Man, almost $20BILLION in revenue for just 1 quarter. Win7 is a HUGE success. Way to go.

  3. Digitalx - 28 January 2010 - 21:54

    when you make something good it pays off.

  4. REM2000 - 29 January 2010 - 09:23

    Digix said,
    when you make something good it pays off.

    I was going to say the same thing.

  5. ishtar - 28 January 2010 - 21:55

    Huh is that all looks like apple is kicking their butt.....NOT

  6. PsykX - 30 January 2010 - 21:11

    ishtar said,
    Huh is that all looks like apple is kicking their butt.....NOT

    Snow Leopard still sold twice as fast as Leopard, who sold twice as fast as Tiger.

  7. Subject Delta - 28 January 2010 - 22:08

    Impressive. Windows 7 is on an absolute roll, Apple are gonna be sweating a bit now that they no longer have the negative publicity that surrounds Vista to live off.

  8. null_ - 28 January 2010 - 22:57

    Frank Fontaine said,
    Impressive. Windows 7 is on an absolute roll, Apple are gonna be sweating a bit now that they no longer have the negative publicity that surrounds Vista to live off.

    Agreed. Apple's marketing success that was simply taking cracks at Vista's downfalls have come to a halt now that 7's on the market.

  9. markjensen - 29 January 2010 - 00:04

    Frank Fontaine said,
    Impressive. Windows 7 is on an absolute roll, Apple are gonna be sweating a bit now that they no longer have the negative publicity that surrounds Vista to live off.
    I think Apple is content to continue to watch Microsoft's OSes drop in marketshare while Apple continues to make sales and keep up.

    Granted 7 is a much nicer product than Vista was. And Microsoft's position of bundling with OEMs is enviable. But I think "sweating" is an exaggeration.

  10. +Elliott - 29 January 2010 - 01:07

    Frank Fontaine said,
    Impressive. Windows 7 is on an absolute roll, Apple are gonna be sweating a bit now that they no longer have the negative publicity that surrounds Vista to live off.

    Yea, probably not. Apple is in a very different position that Microsoft. If anything, Microsoft can just breathe easy now. They're on their way to being able to beat their biggest competitor: Windows XP.

  11. PeterKD - 29 January 2010 - 01:30

    Elliott said,

    Yea, probably not. Apple is in a very different position that Microsoft. If anything, Microsoft can just breathe easy now. They're on their way to being able to beat their biggest competitor: Windows XP.

    +1

  12. Frylock86 - 29 January 2010 - 02:00

    Kristan K said,

    Agreed. Apple's marketing success that was simply taking cracks at Vista's downfalls have come to a halt now that 7's on the market.

    It's been a while since we've seen what PC and Mac have been up to. Lol

  13. artfuldodga - 29 January 2010 - 02:05

    Apple loast share to Windows 7, so, i don't understand how they are content

  14. markjensen - 29 January 2010 - 02:13

    artfuldodga said,
    Apple loast share to Windows 7, so, i don't understand how they are content
    While Windows *7* is gaining share, such is to be expected when that is all they offer on new PCs, and people are going to buy it.

    Overall, Windows, as a platform, has been slowly and steadily declining for many years.

  15. thenetavenger - 29 January 2010 - 03:10

    markjensen said,
    While Windows *7* is gaining share, such is to be expected when that is all they offer on new PCs, and people are going to buy it.

    Overall, Windows, as a platform, has been slowly and steadily declining for many years.

    Um, no...

    You realize there are more people using Windows7, that is only a couple of months old, than all the Mac users combined?

    And this doesn't factor in XP, Vista where you have over 1 billion computers running Windows.

    If completely outselling your nearst competitor entire product line from the last 10 yeasr in a few months is 'declining' I think you need to find a dictionary and look up reality.

    The marketshare % slip around, but that is because more and more people are buying computers, it doesn't mean people stopped buying Windows based computers or the trend has moved from Windows, and that is even with Vista performing horribly in sales.

    Wow, just freaking wow...

  16. +Kirkburn - 29 January 2010 - 03:45

    thenetavenger said,
    Wow, just freaking wow...
    What markjensen says is true: Windows is very slowly declining in market share.

    Win7 might change this - but I don't think any such "rescue" is showing up yet.

    Edit (Kirkburn, 29 January 2010 - 03:45):

  17. markjensen - 29 January 2010 - 04:43

    thenetavenger said,
    Um, no...
    ...
    Wow, just freaking wow...
    Good god! Does anyone actually get an education and realize what marketshare is?

    It is the percentage of market. Yes, 7 sales are up and nice. But a larger percentage are now NOT using Windows than were using it years ago. And steadily dropping. Not a brief 3 month slump.

    http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpdt=1&qpct=4&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=108&qpnp=25

    Please tell me that you are still in middle school or some such and haven't had any sort of statistical analysis classes.

  18. unknownsoldierX - 29 January 2010 - 06:18

    Kirkburn said,
    What markjensen says is true: Windows is very slowly declining in market share.

    Win7 might change this - but I don't think any such "rescue" is showing up yet.

    I don't think they need any rescue. 92% market share is still pretty safe considering second place is 5%.

    http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8

    Edit (unknownsoldierX, 29 January 2010 - 06:20):

  19. REM2000 - 29 January 2010 - 09:25

    unknownsoldierX said,

    I don't think they need any rescue. 92% market share is still pretty safe considering second place is 5%.

    http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8

    Thats very true, however who said that apple is worried about this. Steve has stated and Bill has agreed that for Apple to be a success Microsoft does not have to fail.

    Similar market share can be applied to various cars, just because Toyota has a large market share of cars on the road doesn't mean to say that BMW is losing money or is not a successs with a smaller market share.

  20. thenetavenger - 29 January 2010 - 11:37

    markjensen said,
    Good god! Does anyone actually get an education and realize what marketshare is?

    It is the percentage of market. Yes, 7 sales are up and nice. But a larger percentage are now NOT using Windows than were using it years ago. And steadily dropping. Not a brief 3 month slump.

    http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpdt=1&qpct=4&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=108&qpnp=25

    Please tell me that you are still in middle school or some such and haven't had any sort of statistical analysis classes.

    The entire market is expanding, and trying to define it based on statistically stupid concepts that paint your product in a better light is dishonest, if not insane.

    You call out Windows as 'declining' yet use a straw man concept of market share as proof? Really?

    The truth is that MORE people are using Windows, and this has nothing to do with the fact that MORE people are also using OS X, and MORE people are also using Linux.

    It is a simple statistical expansion model, and somehow you want to dance on a word of meaning like market share and then continue to redefine your argument based on this statistically irrelevant moniker.

    Here is some math for you:

    A1 = 10
    B1 = 1
    C1 = 1

    A2 = 25
    B2 = 3
    B3 = 3

    Now complete your argument that A2 is less than A1, because this is what you are arguing. (And statistically the 1 and 3 are generous numbers for OS X being B if A is Windows.)

    When LESS people are using Windows, you can come back here and tell us how Windows is declining, until then, IT IS NOT.

    Edit (rm20010, 01 February 2010 - 02:27):
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