Windows 7 tops Vista in early consumer sales by more than 200%

Nov 6th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times

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It wasn't a high bar, but Windows 7 cleared it.

Consumer retail sales of Microsoft Corp.'s newest computer operating system topped those of Vista by 234% on a unit basis within the first few days of its Oct. 22 launch, according to a report released Friday by the market research company NPD Group. The report did not include sales to businesses and large organizations.

News that Windows 7 was outperforming Vista, the previous Windows OS version, in sales was not too surprising. The buzz for Windows 7 was relatively positive and largely void of the savage language that reviewers heaped on Vista when it was launched in January 2007.

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