Windows 7: Putting Early Sales Figures in Perspective (PC World) PC World - Initial sales numbers for Windows 7 are in and it seems that the operating system is delivering the redemption for Windows Vista that Microsoft was hoping for. Lower revenue and lower PC hardware sales figures related to Windows 7 hint at issues, but those figures have to be put in perspective. Louvre plays home to Apple's first French store (Reuters) Reuters - Computer giant Apple Inc will open its first French store beneath the Louvre museum on Saturday just two weeks after Microsoft opened a theme cafe to promote its Windows 7 software. Microsoft Battles on in Mobile, Search and the Cloud (PC World) PC World - As Microsoft launches Windows 7 and seeks to banish the ghost of its less-than-successful Vista OS, it is fighting to defend its primacy as the world's leading software company. Has Microsoft Placed Its Last Mobile Bet? (PC World) PC World - When Microsoft first started talking about building mobile-phone software back in the late 1990s, handset makers that had been in the market for years scoffed. Sure, Microsoft was a huge software developer, but making software for mobile devices is different and more complicated than for PCs, they argued. After all, by the late '90s, som...... Microsoft Seeks to Leverage Midmarket ERP (PC World) PC World - Microsoft can't boast the ERP (enterprise resource planning) application revenue earned by giants SAP and Oracle, nor equal their breadth of technological capabilities, but its tight focus on small and medium-sized businesses gives it an edge, according to observers and company officials.. Windows 7 Tops Vista's Rollout as Patch Tuesday Looms (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Score one for Windows 7. The initial sales of the latest version of Microsoft's flagship operating system surpassed Vista's performance during its first few days on the U.S. market, according to the NPD Group. Windows 7 debut a hit: NPD (AFP)
World Tech Update Nov. 5, 2009 (PC World) PC World - In this week's World Tech Update, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tours Asia and talks about the future of television, HTC launches the HD2 smartphone that runs Windows Mobile 6.5, Intel gets slapped with an antitrust lawsuit, Motorola's Droid gets ready to go on sale, an iPhone app from Harvard Medical School helps protect you from swine fl...... Are Heavy Discounts Behind Window 7's Success? (PC World) PC World - The early sales numbers for Windows 7 are indeed impressive. According to market researcher NPD Group, U.S. sales of Windows 7 boxed software were a whopping 234 percent higher than Vista's first several days of sales. And as my colleague Brennon Slattery pointed out earlier today, a mixture of media hype and mostly upbeat Windows 7 revi...... You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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AFP - Industry tracker comScore on Friday released a study showing that Internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties.
AFP - Microsoft's new-generation Windows 7 operating system hit the ground running, with US sales in its opening days blasting past those of its Vista predecessor, according to NPD Group.
