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Windows 7 more popular than Harry Potter
Author: Gareth HalfacreePublished: 22nd October 2009
Windows 7 has enjoyed an incredibly successful pre-order run, selling more in eight hours than Vista's entire pre-order availability period.
According to figures quoted by Electronista, online retailer Amazon's UK arm has seen pre-orders - which started in July and ended on yesterday, just before the official day of release - climb so high in the pre-sales ranking charts that they successfully beat even the final Harry Potter book.
Indeed, the OS has been so popular with the pre-order crowd that the only thing on the site which has sold anywhere near the same quantity is Dan Brown's latest potboiler Lost Symbol - fairly impressive when you consider that Amazon's prime competency is book sales, not software.
So far, Windows 7 has already performed far better than its damp squib of a predecessor Windows Vista, selling more in the first eight hours of pre-orders than Vista did in its entire pre-order availability - a sure sign that consumers are skipping straight from Windows XP to Windows 7, something that was last seen when Microsoft launched the vastly unpopular Windows ME operating system.
The highly successful pre-order run comes despite Microsoft offering people the chance to get their hands on the top-end Windows 7 Ultimate Edition for free by hosting a launch party - providing they don't mind risking social suicide.
So far most peoples' impressions of Windows 7 are largely positive, and the inclusion of a virtualised Windows XP environment for software and hardware that just doesn't play well with the new OS, will reassure business customers that this isn't another Vista - although it's only available for Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. This could well be the operating system that finally spells the end for ever-popular, but now eight year old Windows XP.
Were you one of the masses who pre-ordered Windows 7, or are you failing to see what the fuss is all about? Have you already got your sticky mitts on your copy? Perhaps you'll be hosting a launch party later today for your free Ultimate Edition - in which case we want pictures! Share your thoughts and experiences over in the forums.
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1 Win7 Pro for the desktop
About to buy another Win7 Home Premium from PC World for my mothers laptop.
About time Microsoft avenged Vista's shoddy release and performance.
:thumbsup:
Thank You Microsoft (god I feel dirty now).
Since it was on pre-order he bought the E full retail, so he's now legitimately got two retail Windows OSes.
It's frustrating the missus a bit cos sh doesn't take to new tech well but she is getting the hang of it! Lol
set the UAC on the highest level, don't fall for the slippy guys.. well it keeps the support guys happy anyway- and the botnet has nothing to worry about XD puppets galore
Said the fanboy...
thats a bit harsh, I really enjoyed Vista and barely had any issues, in fact I ejoyed it far more then I did XP but yes I do enjoy Win7 far more then I do XP as well and will be upgrading all my systems at least the ones I havent already upgraded to Win7 as it is a really nice OS, I think the best so far from MS
+1
I never had any issues with Vista that I couldn't get around easily. The biggest problem Vista had was all the numptys who haven't even tried it telling everyone who will listen about how crap it is.
first thing i did before even installing drivers was switch UAC off.
running Ultimate 64Bit
Good to know we're already considered fan boys. It's a sign you acknowledge our existence! B)
I'll consider getting it later on...
Lots of new technologies like USB 3.0 coming out. The new and more affordable processors from AMD and INTEL. Affordable graphics cards that deliver way above performance than the current available consoles.
The big winner will be Microsoft, but the ecosystem that surrounds this product is so vast that it is enough to boost the economy even if just a bit.
I recently built a very affordable $360 media center for my living room with Windows 7. Me and my family are loving it.
Running Batman Arkham Asylum with everything up with a great resolution.
All I know is, I don't want Microsoft deciding the refresh rate of my monitors, if I'm still running CRTs that work. With XP I can push to the full 100Hz and that's cool, with Vista, MS assumed the whole world was running a TFT. Hoping that 7 doesn't contain the same restriction - though the only delay to my buying it, is buying 2 extra gigs of RAM first of all so I can go 64-Bit.
32-bit is good enough for me, I mean I'd rather have 3.5 gigs of usable RAM than 4 gigs of RAM that's being buggered by memory leaks from wayward programs (two of which are indispensable to me).
Same, except I got the 64bit version, I also am waiting on some other free copies from a friend from when I was at microsoft..
I now just need to look at the budget so I can upgrade to 6GB DDR3 and i7..
i would(do) run UAC on level 2 its not annoying at all (drivers and software install notify only and No dark screen so no delay) level 3 has dark UAC prompt (default setting so there could be an delay) Level 4 is Vista Full UAC (any thing that needs admin or mostly any system settings changes)
the thing is UAC or No UAC Norm users are going to install Crap or botnets spyware adware any way (Trust me i remove a lot of it from my customers) UAC does limit it an little but it end when they press alow or yes(as adware is becoming UAC aware it bypass it once you have allowed it to run it )