October 24, 2009 by Matt Thomas
According to retailers, Windows 7, Microsoft’s latest operating system, is set to break computer software sales records after its release today. According to Amazon, the system is already the highest grossing pre-order product ever, easily eclipsing the latest Harry Potter film and the Nintendo Wii. Also, rather damningly for Microsoft’s previous system Vista, Jeremy Fennel, one of the directors of DSGi, the group that owns Dixons, PC World and Currys claims that the group has “Sold more copies of Windows 7 in three weeks on pre-order than Vista sold in its first year.”
As always seems to be the case with technology launches these days, there were queues outside computer shops across the country forming from early this morning as PC users rushed to be amongst the first to buy the system.
In a way, this shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Microsoft is the world’s biggest software manufacturer and there are more computers in the word than ever before. Also, it’s been a long time since a Microsoft OS release has been this hotly anticipated. This is largely due to the perceived failure windows of Vista which has failed to catch on to the extent that many users are still using Microsoft’s last but on OS, Windows XP. They are therefore, badly in need of an upgrade.
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