Windows 7 Sales Exceed Vista by 234%

The numbers have been tallied by the folks at NPD and Windows 7 sales have so far exceeded Vista sales by 234%. It’s still too early to make big predictions but that is definitely an impressive start.

According to the NPD groups' weekly tracking service, Windows 7 software unit sales in the U.S. increased 234% over Windows Vista's first few days of sales. "A combination of factors impacted Windows 7 PC sales at the outset, but the trajectory of overall PC sales is very strong leading into the holiday season," said Stephen Baker at NPD.

The vibe and launch has gone much more smoothly since it didn't have any real launch-day issues like Vista did for a couple of months as drivers caught up... it's a tweaked/polished Vista, really. Not so surprising that it sold much better .

amazing how much marketing can make or break you in this day and age.

it also goes to show the power of first impressions. Vista limped out the gate and even though i really enjoyed it, many never got to know the vista that many of us enthusiasts came to enjoy.

windows 7 looks to be the true successor to xp for most. which means settle in, we have like 8 years of it

I'll take 4 years of Windows 7, any more I need them to change the overall feel of the os. Besides that, they are already talking about 128bit computing. I can't wait to buy my core i43 on the p/x349 chipset!

Been using Windows 7 since 7062 or around there. I won't go back to either XP or Vista. It's that neat and they've actually worked out most of the issues. There are some tweaks I have to make here and there but other than that, nothing I'm worried about. I got Windows 7 Professional from my school's MSDNAA program so I'm happy.

Originally Posted by Manaknight

windows 7 looks to be the true successor to xp for most. which means settle in, we have like 8 years of it

QFT. I was never a fan of Vista, other than it being the first stable/supported 64-bit Windows. Still use XP on my home computer, will be Win7 when I build a new one. Got rid of Vista from my work PC as soon as RC2 came out, and never looked back.

I'm half expecting a follow up story to occur soon. Something along the lines of:

In other news, despite record sales projections and initial record sales(compared to vista), Microsoft lays off another x thousand workers to increase profit margins by x percent in the Seattle area.

and lets not forget those keys on ebay for $20

i see it now in shops for $350, ahh what a saving

Looking at the steam hardware survey, win7 64 has almost the same percentage of users as vista64 does. Looks like it's gonna pick up pretty fast.

It's a very good OS.
Vista grew to be OK, but W7 seems to be very polished right out of the gate.

All my home comps have HP and I just got a copy of Professional off eBay for real cheap.

I'm happy this has worked out so well.
I hope Apple takes that idiot commercial off the TV now. "trust this" Steve.

Vista was like ME in regards to not being a polished, finished product...I'm even tempted to get 7 (or Windows 15 if you count all the variants).

And yes that Apple advert is annoying as hell, and sends another message of Microsoft Windows has progressed for the better, the Apple OS has just not changed at all.

Vista was a brand new kernel, 7 is the revamped, polished version of that kernel. I think it's perfectly sensible for this OS to sell better. It's simply better developed because it isn't version 0.8 (which is what we got with Vista, pretty much).

They've had time to address issues that weren't even known to exist when Vista was released and they already have a successful platform from Vista to develop on.

Originally Posted by [Tripod]MajorPayne

Vista was a brand new

I'm curious where all these people keep getting hte idea that things start from scratch. That's not how software development works, PARTICULARLY in Operating Systems where you want to maintain backwards compatibility. Every single version of Windows NT (3.1, 3.5, 4, 2000, XP, Vista, 7) has started with the codebase of the previous version.

i think 7 will be the last to really work ok on most "xp machines". windows 8 will still be longhorn based, but i suspect the real reasons to buy 8 will be features that utilize a good amount of horsepower. believing that, and from what others are saying, it really does look like windows 7 will be around in a majority of pc's for a decade or more.

I skipped vista and went from xp 32bit to win7 64bit. I hated it for the first few days but now I love it. For people like me who skipped vista it may take a little getting used to.

I think 7s success has alot to do with that at its core its alot like Vista. With Vista there was a huge differance between Vista and XP, Vista was a whole new OS, 7 is just a makeover of Vista to make people forget about Vistas launch issues.
As for driver issues, why you think theres so little problems with them and 7, especially when you dont have proper 7 drivers that in most cases Vista's driver work just fine. And why have hardware makers done so well with 7s drivers so early in release, well because theres not a whole lot differant than the old ones.

I am running Vista, I have had very little problems with it, no more then I had w/ XP. I have been very happy with it. But I will be upgrading as soon as I can aford it. I am sure I will be as happy with it as I have w/ All the other OSs I have had.
(I have had all versions of Windows sense 3.1 except for M.E.)

Originally Posted by krupted

i think 7 will be the last to really work ok on most "xp machines". windows 8 will still be longhorn based, but i suspect the real reasons to buy 8 will be features that utilize a good amount of horsepower. believing that, and from what others are saying, it really does look like windows 7 will be around in a majority of pc's for a decade or more.

I don't think so. More than one article I've read has shown that 7 actually works on older hardware that Vista would't even install on. One reviewer loaded it on a 5 year old P4 laptop and it ran better for him than XP did.

This may be evidence of the bad blood between Microsoft and Intel. I think MS is trying to unhook itself from the Intel upgrade train. Seems they talk less about upgrading processors for maximum performance than they do upgrading video cards for DX10/11

my world of warcraft freezes at least once in win 7 ..every other day. it has not done that in vista since the first year of crap drivers.

Originally Posted by RedStarSQD

my world of warcraft freezes at least once in win 7 ..every other day. it has not done that in vista since the first year of crap drivers.

Sometimes it happens when you stay in one zone for long time and Win7 turns off the hard drive that contains WoW files due to inactivity. Then when you move/port to another zone WoW tries to read game files and hangs up because they are not available for 10+ seconds.