http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft CEO Ballmer says Windows 7 sales are double its predecessors' http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/I love Win 7]]>Nov 19th 2009 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
Agree 100%

After 12+ months of continued use, I find
very few things about it to dislike]]>Nov 19th 2009 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/1996 called they want their fonts back

Times New Roman is u g l y]]>Nov 19th 2009 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
I agree. I'm not a fan of Times New Roman. Reminds me too much of essays and reports I had to do for class.]]>Nov 19th 2009 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
Seriously, who approved the serif font? What's this site trying to be? The New York Times for gadget geeks edition? Bring back my sans-serif!]]>Nov 19th 2009 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
It seems like an awful lot of different fonts on one page. Plus the italics. ]]>Nov 19th 2009 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
you dont like reading serif? ever read a book? how about a a newspaper? news website? anything that actually matters? guess what font they use for copy? its SERIFS. if you knew anything about fonts you would know serifs are the easiest to read. hence why books and everything else written uses serifs.]]>Nov 20th 2009 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/You are right, this site went from simple and nice to bloated and ugly. It also renders very different on Mac and PC, the PC version is totally screwed. Time to move on and find a better site.]]>Nov 20th 2009 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 20th 2009 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
That is why I don't read books, I stand the serif font. It is more complicated to view and inefficient IMO]]>Nov 20th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
Microsoft is obviously going to have larger-than-expected sales for the release of a solid operating system following the relative failure that was Vista. This isn't just any ol' routing Windows upgrade... the floodgates holding back the XP users from migrating to a new OS have finally been thrown open, or at least, widened significantly.]]>Nov 25th 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
That was me. Sorry folks. ]]>Nov 19th 2009 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 20th 2009 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
The typeface is lovely.]]>Nov 19th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
what about WinMO]]>Nov 19th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
sorry for the bad grammar ]]>Nov 19th 2009 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
Apparently on Pocketnow they have some info from a guy in the EU that saw it.

http://pocketnow.com/tech-news/windows-mobile-7-impressions-leaked-impressive]]>Nov 19th 2009 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
WinMo is dead.]]>Nov 19th 2009 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/I upgraded to Windows 7 for 0.00 bucks.
thank you M$.]]>Nov 19th 2009 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
good for u
]]>Nov 19th 2009 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
gotta love msdnaa]]>Nov 19th 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 20th 2009 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
Seems like an Apple CEO was wrong once again]]>Nov 19th 2009 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
"Microsoft has sold twice as many copies of Win 7 as any previous Microsoft OS in a comparable time frame"

Did you read the article? They aren't just talking about Vista, they're talking about all versions of Windows. ]]>Nov 19th 2009 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
Beyond that, major corporations really don't get the ROI for 7, which is why they are not planning major roll-outs of new equipment bundled with 7. Windows and Office in their present incarnations are finished – if the next version of Windows can't offer the same speed and security of Chrome, what then?

Everyone won't rush out to implement Chrome, but they will take a long, hard look at which approach will be the direction for the future.]]>Nov 19th 2009 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
Gotta give the "kid" some credit.......he's experimented
with allot of OS's for someone just entering Junior
High School]]>Nov 19th 2009 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
To say that there were fewer users before Vista is completely ignorant. EVERYBODY knows that Vista was not adopted well, and not nearly as well as its predecessors. If Vista was not adopted well, this means that the user base for the previous version (I'll keep it simple and use one generation, so xp) was larger. This means that the adoption rate was larger than two generations ago.

I would love to know where you get your facts about major corporations not planning on implementing 7. To be honest, I would ask, why would they? But then I would ask the same question, why would they be looking for something else?

The fact is we're kind of at a plateau. Obviously corporations are cutting back right now, they don't want to spend the money on new hardware and software, including OS licenses. If the systems they have in place work, why replace them? But then they also wouldn't be looking for a different OS, such as Chrome as you suggested.

The same goes for home users. How much does a new computer really help the average user, performance wise. Sure they could get that fancy dancy new quad-core, but when all they do is the occasional word document, email checking, and internet surfing, does it really matter? The answer is no.

Now taking those two facts into account, the fact that Windows 7 adoption rate is double all of its predecessors is quite staggering. Sure, it may not be driving hardware sales, but didn't people always hate on Microsoft saying they were just trying to drive sales of hardware and help their buddies? Once that one of the biggest complaints of Vista was that you needed new hardware? Here we are having them NOT drive sales and you're complaining. I think it's a good thing. People are finally starting to realize that they don't need a slightly faster processor, the one they have is completely adequate, and hey, it runs Windows 7 - and runs it quite well.]]>Nov 20th 2009 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
"I would call it pretty good," Baker said, "but I wouldn't call it great." Baker said that expectations for Windows 7 were even higher than its actual performance, but the tough economy and retailers' reluctance to give up on either Windows XP or Vista created what he called a "headwind" for Microsoft's new operating system. While unit sales of Windows 7 were up dramatically over Vista's early numbers, the new operating system brought in a less-than-stellar 82% revenue increase over Vista. While retail copies did well, PC sales were less impressive. They were higher than any week during the high-volume third quarter, when back-to-school sales dominated, but they weren't as strong as the uptick during Vista's launch, Baker said.

Windows 7. Less than Vista. Fact.

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Let's just say, Walt Mossberg - one of the most anti-microsoft pro apple people on the planet, said himself "Windows 7 is the best desktop OS I've ever used". Look it up. You got one review from computerworld. One review means nothing. Look at every other review, and the storms of people going to Windows 7, and you will see how very wrong you are.]]>Nov 20th 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/
I'm still rocking XP (downgraded from Vista)]]>Nov 19th 2009 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Its not 2001 anymore....get with the times.]]>Nov 19th 2009 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/microsoft-ceo-ballmer-says-windows-7-sales-are-double-its-predec/Nov 19th 2009 8:53PM