Windows 7 sales exceed Vista sales by 234%
Consumer Market Research firm NPD has confirmed that initial sales of Windows 7 have surpassed those of the Windows Vista launch.
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6.11.2009 Tesco.com moves into software sales
Tesco has announced it is to move into the software market, with the launch of a range of low-cost office productivity applications set to challenge Microsoft, Symantec and other big-name incumbents.
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4.10.2006 No Effect on PC Sales This Year
Microsoft's new OS isn't having much effect on 2007 PC sales, with 'at best, a limited boost.'
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26.3.2007 Microsoft Says Vista Sales Strong
More than 20 million copies of Windows Vista were sold globally in February 2007, the first month of sales since its widespread consumer release.
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27.3.2007 Vista no panacea for PC sales
Although Microsoft has characterized itself as happy with Vista adoption so far—and Bill Gates said last week at WinHEC that Microsoft had shipped 40 million copies—the release of the new operating system has not resulted in a significant bump in PC sales.
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24.5.2007 PC sales are growing - but not because of Vista
Worldwide PC shipments are expected to increase by 11 per cent this year spurred by uptake in emerging markets rather than the launch of Microsoft’s Vista operating system, according to research.
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28.6.2007 PC sales to drop despite Windows 7
Research firm Gartner have published their predictions for PC sales for 2009, predicting that worldwide sales will fall by 6% from 2008 levels. The sales of netbooks, however, are set to rise.
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29.6.2009 Music Sales Climb 25% In Canada
It's an advocates dream come true. News that sales have never been better in a country where the record industry associated with labels like EMI is in a "moral vacuum."
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9.10.2006 Microsoft looks to Halo 3 to boost Crackdown sales
Interest in upcoming free-roaming adventure Crackdown should soar on release this February, with the game disc including a key to download a beta test of Halo 3.
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4.1.2007 Study: Zune Sales Slow But Steady
While Microsoft is adamant that sales of its Zune player are 'meeting expectations,' data from market research firm Current Analysis indicates that the device failed to break into the top 10 in sales, and is competing in the wrong market segment.
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6.1.2007 Vista's business sales stronger than expected
Sales of Windows Vista to businesses were stronger than expected during the operating system's debut month, according to a report from NPD Group.
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11.1.2007 Vista Will Have Little Impact on Mac Sales: Analyst Says
While the launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system will drive consumer PC sales in the coming months, the operating system's impact on sales of Apple's Macintosh are expected to be minimal, according to a recent report.
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17.2.2007 The Vista Sales Numbers: Anatomy of a Wash
The abundant mix of both upward and downward slopes that have characterized Microsoft Windows Vista sales projections since last September, and the strangely dichotomous co-existence of expectations exceeded and fears realized, has led many experts to start asking serious questions about the role the operating system plays not only in the markets but in our lives:
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19.2.2007 Wii Continues Sales Dominance in February
Nintendo's Wii outsold all other next-generation consoles in February, the NPD Group reports, further solidifying its second place market share among new consoles in the US. Meanwhile, PS3 sales continue to lag.
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18.3.2007 Gates responds to questions about his stock sales
The recent jump in Microsoft's stock price was on the minds of shareholders during the company's annual meeting in Seattle this morning, but not necessarily with a sense of satisfaction. During the question-and-answer period, a couple of shareholders asked and commented about recent stock sales by Bill Gates and some other executives following the share increase.
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13.11.2007 Microsoft: Windows Vista sales grow up!
Microsoft chair Bill Gates today noted at a European news conference that sales of Windows Vista have reached 140 million copies worldwide.
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9.5.2008 Microsoft permitted to continue Word sales for now
Microsoft Word fans across the world can rejoice and breathe a sigh of relief today as Microsoft has won a temporary stay, allowing Word sales to continue.
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4.9.2009 Windows 7 Seeing fantastic Sales in Japan, Says Ballmer
Initial sales of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system, were "fantastic" in Japan and helped spur PC sales in the country, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
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5.11.2009 Microsoft Slashes Xbox 360 Sales Estimates
As we reported early yesterday evening, during its regular quarterly earnings call, Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell stated he's cutting unit sales projections for Xbox 360 game consoles for the first calendar quarter of 2007, by as much as three million units.
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28.1.2007 Microsoft's new OS Vista spurs computer sales
US sales of computers carrying Microsoft's new operating system Vista soared in the week after it was launched, defying the expectations of analysts who gave Vista lackluster reviews.
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10.2.2007 Vista Sales Estimates Indicate Dwindling Retail Channel
Comparing preliminary information released by NPD this morning regarding launch week sales for Microsoft Windows Vista versus historical NPD data for prior years, BetaNews has learned the news for Microsoft may seem even more daunting than at first believed:
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16.2.2007 Windows Vista sales rate double that of XP
On March 26, Microsoft released its internal sales figures for the first month of Windows Vista. Microsoft said it has sold in excess of 20 million Vista licenses in the first month of latest Windows client's general availability.
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30.3.2007 Microsoft eyes huge launch sales of Halo 3
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research expects the launch of its upcoming "Halo 3" video game to surpass that of "Halo 2", which pulled down $125 million in sales in its first 24 hours, an executive said on Friday.
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12.5.2007 Vista Sales Near 40 Million, Gates Says At WinHEC
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates also revealed that the official name of the next version of the company's server operating system--heretofore code-named Longhorn--will be Windows Server 2008.
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16.5.2007 Wii Continues to Shine as PS3 Sales Slide Further
For the fourth month in a row, the Nintendo Wii outsold its competitors, even showing impressive strength at a time that is traditionally one of the slower periods for video game sales.
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21.5.2007 Vista sales slow despite record MS profit
The sales rate of Microsoft's Windows Vista is gradually slowing down as the operating system reaches the one-year anniversary of its release to businesses, according to the company's latest financial results.
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28.10.2007 Internal Vista SP1 promo: Rockin Our Sales
Internal Microsoft videos just aren’t what they used to be with Utopian technologies and eye-candy special effects.
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16.4.2008 Windows 7 pre-order sales remain strong
After Microsoft started selling Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional upgrades at a discount, consumers were flocking to take advantage of these discounts resulting in strong sales, and according to Information Week, those pre-order sales continue to remain strong.
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8.7.2009 Blu-ray Disc Sales Surpass HD DVD
Data from Nielsen indicates that sales of Blu-ray media for the first time has outpaced that of HD DVD; however, as expected, both camps in the high-definition format war have different ways of interpreting the data.
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24.2.2007 Microsoft says Windows Vista sales reach 60 million
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile , Research) had sold 60 million Windows Vista licenses as of the end of June, including 20 million copies sold since mid-May, the company said on Thursday.
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27.7.2007Apple Mac sales are down, but maybe not everywhere
Although Apple no longer seems immune to the PC industry sales slump, analyst figures released this week don't actually show the entire sales
picture...
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20.02.2009Microsoft silent on true Vista figures
Microsoft is keeping mum on
sales figures of Windows
Vista, despite its chief
operating officer claiming
that 60 million units have
been sold.
The
software maker, however,
declined to confirm the figure
that Kevin Turner told
financial analysts last week,
throwing into confusion how
successful its latest
operating system has been.
But, approached
by ZDNet Australia's sister
site ZDNet.co.uk for
confirmation, Microsoft could
only confirm that it had sold
40 million, saying the last
figure is two months old.
If Microsoft's
figures are to be believed,
this means Vista sales are
flat. Turner's figures mean
that 20 million copies of
Vista have been sold, on a
wholesale basis at least, over
the last two months, with 40
million sold in the first four
months since the consumer
launch in January...
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31.07.2007Microsoft Says Vista Sales Strong
Kevin Kutz, a director in
Microsoft's Windows client
group, has announced that over
20 million copies of Windows
Vista were sold globally in
the first month of sales since
the consumer release (February
2007) compared to more than
the 17 million copies of
Windows XP that were sold in
the first two months following
its release in October 2001.
" These sales figures
reflect global sales from
retail, PC manufacturers and
the Express Upgrade program,
and indicate that we are on
track to more than double the
initial pace of sales for
Windows XP, and for Vista to
become the fastest adopted
version of Windows ever ,"
Kutz said. These sales figures
were compiled by Microsoft
based on sales reports from
its retail and PC
manufacturers over the period,
as well as from the Express
Upgrade program.
Kutz declined to break down
the numbers by region or per
each of the six Vista editions
but did note that sales were
strong across the globe.
Microsoft is expected to
disclose more regional and
version sales details when it
releases its quarterly
financial figures in late
April. Kutz did acknowledge
that, historically, there
tended to be a rush of sales
immediately after a product's
launch, which varied according
to the time of year.
" It's worth noting that
with XP, which we launched in
late October in advance of the
holiday season, those figures
captured some of the holiday
rush ," he said. With
regard to sales of Office 2007
over the same period, Kutz
said Microsoft was not
disclosing any sales figures,
adding that " the folk at
Office are pleased right now
with the initial
response ."
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27.03.2007NPD: PS3, Xbox 360 sales still lag behind PS2
Market research group NPD released video game console sales figures for the month of February, and the units with the fastest processors look to be
selling the slowest...
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20.03.2008NPD: Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 sales still lag behind PS2
Market research group NPD released video game console sales figures for the month of February, and the units with the fastest processors look to be
selling the slowest...
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19.03.2008A year later, sales of Linux on Dell computers continue to grow
As Dell Inc. approaches its one-year anniversary of selling laptop and desktop computers preloaded with Ubuntu Linux, the company is continuing to
expand the fledgling program to new computer models and markets.
In interviews at Dell's Parmer campus north of Austin last
week, four Dell representatives said sales of the Linux-loaded machines are encouraging.
Though they declined to give sales
figures for the Linux-equipped machines, the Dell officials were adamant in saying that the program wouldn't be continuing or adding new models if
the sales figures were not adequate.
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16.04.2008The silver lining shows up anyway, with good Cyber Monday news
Online metrics company comScore has released its updated set of holiday e-commercial sales figures, showing an increase in Cyber Monday spending over
last year, with a notable lift in Consumer Electronics sales...
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08.12.2008Billboard: iTunes prices up, sales down
I could have told you this, though I am a little surprised that we've seen the results so fast. Despite iTunes having put the new tiered pricing into
effect just last week, Billboard is reporting that they've already seen sales drop on the higher-priced tunes. The iTunes Top 100 chart has 40
different songs with a new price of $1.29, and one day after the changes, those songs dropped an average of 5.3 places on the chart, while cheaper
songs moved up on average. And on the second day of the price change, ten of the tracks that saw their prices rise within 24 hours dropped a huge 12.4
chart positions on average.
Of course, we're talking only a matter of days here, and there are all kinds of things that could have
affected this average drop, lots of the tracks that became expensive were from a Rascal Flatts album, and it could be just that the album has lost
popularity bringing the average down. Don't forget that even though these sales figures may be dropping, they haven't dropped nearly enough to show
a loss of revenue (though fewer songs may be selling, they're still making more money).
But for those convinced that higher prices mean
lower sales numbers, these first few days of figures will seem to connect all of the right dots. We'll have to wait and see if the long-term effects
match up to the figures Billboard has seen so far.
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14.04.2009iPhone sees record sales numbers, again
As news has been crossing the Internet on Apple CEO Steve Jobs' liver transplant, the new iPhone 3GS has been released and sales for the handset
are booming. According to news posted on various websites, including MacDailyNews figures for the first three days of sales have reached an
astonishing one million units. In addition to this, the new 3.0 version of the iPhone software has been downloaded over six million times, just five
days since its release.
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22.06.2009Is Microsoft Office 2007 outselling Windows Vista?
Mary Jo Foley is speculating that sales of Office 2007 may be outpacing sales of Windows Vista. According to Microsoft's July Vista sales
pronouncement, the software giant had sold 60 million copies of Vista. Although the Office team hasn't been talking sales figures since the
simultaneous launch of the two products, according to information shared during a recent briefing with certain members of the French tech press,
Microsoft allegedly has sold 70 million copies of Office 2007 to date. A Microsoft spokesperson noted: " It's not our policy to confirm the
license figures ." Assuming the numbers are correct, and Microsoft hasn't denied them, Office 2007 may be outselling Vista or at the very least,
keeping up.
Are there any Neowinians out there who skipped Vista but couldn't resist an upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft
Office?
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15.09.2007RAM use rises thanks to Vista, falling prices
Microsoft's memory-hungry
Vista operating system --
along with falling dynamic RAM
prices -- is boosting
semiconductor sales.
The Semiconductor Industry
Association (SIA) reported
this week that worldwide sales
of semiconductors hit $20.3
billion in May -- 2.4% higher
than sales of $19.8 billion in
the same month a year ago.
The San Jose-based
trade association, citing
figures from one of its
members, Micron Technology
Inc., said the average amount
of DRAM installed in PCs has
increase from 772MB last year
to 1,180MB this year. ..
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05.07.2007Netbooks now more popular than iPhone
Have we entered the era of the netbook? For those not paying attention a netbook is an ultraportable notebook. It's also an ultra-affordable
notebook most often priced below $500. In recent months, the form factor has become so popular sales figures are rivaling Apple's iPhone,
according to sales data. According to the latest smartphone sales numbes from Gartner and DisplaySearch's netbook sales numbers, 4.7 million
iPhones were shipped in Q3 2008, while a whopping 5.6 million netbooks were sold in the same period. Actually, debates sparked a couple of months ago
about Apple releasing a small notebook computer, in the form of a netbook.
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11.12.2008Analysis: Is Black Friday truly good for an ailing US economy?
As the final figures for last Black Friday's and Cyber Monday's sales show positive gains, is this really proof that the US economy isn't as
lumbering as the housing market and credit crunch would indicate?..
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01.12.2007Will 'Cyber Monday' fare better than a weak 'Black Friday?'
Today could be the day for some of the best online deals to be found all year. But will consumers bite? Internet market research firm comScore
released its early holiday figures, showing a drop in online sales by 4%...
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02.12.2008PlayStation 3 sales boom (is over)
It was almost too good to be true for Sony, wasn't it? After three weeks of
improved sales for its PS3 console, the status quo seems to have been restored once again. PS3 sales last week plummeted back to
where they were before the price cuts and the launch of the 40GB model.
Sales of the Xbox 360, in contrast, have held pretty
steady in the last few months. An average of around 11,000 of them are sold each week (according to figures from VGChartz), while PS3 sales have been
fluctuating violently. And now the PS3 has nestled back into its former position in the sub-10,000 group.
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07.11.2007Apple claims 1M iPhone 3Gs sold, some may be vouchers
Today, Apple announced the iPhone's opening weekend figures, claiming it had passed the one million sales mark on Sunday, and that 10 million apps
were downloaded in the same three-day period...
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14.07.2008Sony says PS3 outselling Xbox 360 in Europe
Sony is touting European sales figures which have surpassed those of Microsoft, even though the Xbox 360 was released some 16 months before the PS3...
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08.05.2008Data: Nintendo drives the video game industry
NPD group yesterday released its figures representing the video game industry at large, and with total sales up 19% over 2007, Nintendo was
responsible for nearly all of that growth...
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16.01.2009MS: Xbox 360 outselling PS3 two to one
Well, it seems like there's nothing like a good ol' price cut to help shift units for Microsoft. The software and console giant has just announced
that sales of the Xbox 360 have increased by 214 percent following the Xbox 360 price cuts and that the Xbox 360 is now selling two consoles for every
one PlayStation 3.
The sales, which are supported by sales figures from Chart-Track, include only those from the past two weeks.
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01.10.2008Digital Music Market Triples,
ISPs Warned
Digital music sales tripled
during 2005 according to
figures released by the
International Federation of
the Phonographic Industry on
Thursday. However, the group
warned that more cooperation
was needed from ISPs to
contain piracy, and lawsuits
could be used to force their
hand...
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