Beijing April 25, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft has said that since October 2009 has been officially released, next-generation operating system Windows 7's sales have exceeded 1 million units.
Microsoft spokesman Brandon LeBlanc (Brandon LeBlanc) has a company blog that "sales exceeded 1 million units, meaning that more than 10% of the PC already running Windows 7 operating system." Internet traffic monitoring bodiesNet Applications statistics previously released, has listed nearly 10 years of Windows XP, is still the world's most popular operating systems, its market share reached 64.5%.Windows Vista's market share of approximately 10.2%.Microsoft on Thursday reported a third quarter release, the company's Windows operating system sales rose 28% to 44 billion U.S. dollars.
Microsoft's earnings report also showed that as of March 31 in the third quarter, Microsoft's net profit of 40.1 billion U.S. dollars, 45 cents per share, this performance increase over the same period were 35% and 36%.In the third quarter of fiscal 2009, Microsoft's net profit of 2.977 billion U.S. dollars, earnings per share of 33 cents.Microsoft's third-quarter revenue was 14.5 billion U.S. dollars, compared with $ 13,648,000,000 a year earlier, an increase of 6%.Microsoft's third-quarter results exceeded market expectations.Tom Reuters survey, analysts had expected, Microsoft's third-quarter earnings of 42 cents per share on revenue of 14.38 billion U.S. dollars.
Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein (Peter Klein) on the day the earnings announcement said, "Windows 7 is still the driving force for growth for the company. By strong sales driven by Windows 7, Microsoft's third-quarter revenue of Windows businessan increase of 28%. Currently, more than 10% of computers have installed the Windows 7 operating system, from October 22, 2009 side operating system release since Windows 7, which operating system the company has become the fastest selling in historyoperating system. "
Microsoft COO Kevin Turner (Kevin Turner) said in early March this year, since its launch last October, Microsoft has sold 90 million copies of Windows 7.Turner also said: "We see many companies are interested in updating to Windows 7. This area has great momentum. Microsoft sold 300 million this year, a copy of Windows 7."
But not all of the Microsoft business has maintained strong growth momentum.Microsoft's earnings report also showed that for the Microsoft Office-based business segment revenue for the $ 4,242,000,000, compared with $ 4,508,000,000 a year earlier, down 6%; operating profit of 2.622 billion U.S. dollars, a year earlier to 2.756 billion U.S. dollars.