Windows 7 Boom or Bomb?

It's been a few weeks now since the launch of the Windows seven release by Microsoft. The launch in general was much lower key than past version launches, likely for a couple of reasons. The biggest being that Windows 7 was the solution to the Vista version of 2 years back. That was a disaster on each level.

of course Microsoft has said that the income generated was greater than any other Windows version release. Considering the Windows seven prices were higher than any other version, I'm not so sure that's a good measurement of the success.

Then you have got a fairly big group of users who saw the Vista issues and decided to wait. And this most likely is the group that made the difference on the sales figures. Lots of folk were sticking with Windows XP since it worked. So there was a{ stored up| pent up| constrained requirement for a reasonable new windows operating system.

and there had been, and still is, plenty of puzzlement over whether you need to by the upgrade or full package. If you have got any version of Windows on a {PC|P. C. Computer, you can upgrade due to the extremely liberal upgrade policy on Windows seven. And there's no difference in the features on upgrade or full version in any of the selections of Premium, Business, etc . The premium version is obviously the most popular, followed by the Professional version, that has the power to run older Windows XP applications in a protected environment.

the difficulty with upgrading in place ( installing on top of current operating system ) is twofold. One, if your PC is older and underpowered it may not handle the new operating system, and two, you bring over deadweight and junk that you had on the original system. I mostly recommend a clean install, just back up your data, find all your software CDs, and get a fast and fresh install. It might take an additional hour or 2 but the performance in each day tasks will more than make up for it. If you PC is three years or older, it might not have the juice to run Windows 7 well.

Back to the sales results on Windows 7, no actual figures are available yet. But there was no real spike seen in new apparatus sales reported by most most important sources. Some tracking firms have stated that Windows 7 sales were over 200% better than Vista were two years back. I would take this with a touch of suspicion since all of the new PCs come with Windows 7 now, so you actually don't have much of choice unless you special order.


There really is not any one feature that stands proud on the new Windows 7 version. Boot times were touted as being quicker together with less crashes of the operating system. For those who had a problem with Vista, this was a nice change and primarily based on feedback so far, Windows seven is a far more reliable and stable operating system. But for those that weren't having issues with Vista, there truly is not a must have feature in Windows 7 to warrant a $100+ greenback investment.

So the bottom line is the sales were better on Windows seven than Vista. There wasn't any real evidence of any surge in new kit sales. Most probably the many people who chose not to upgrade to Vista are the ones who helped increase the sales of Windows seven. So that the Windows 7 launch was a giant improvement over the Vista launch since no large Problems have appeared and few people are having Problems. And less issues is an excellent thing.