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Microsoft: 150 Million Copies of Windows 7 Sold

Microsoft says that it has sold 150 million copies of Windows 7 in less than a year, making the operating system...yes, you guessed it, the fastest-selling operating system in Microsoft history! It seems as though we remember hearing similar claims about Vista and not believing them, but somehow just about everything attached to Windows 7 seems pretty credible. So, we'll believe these numbers...as your editor types away on his XP laptop.  

Posted by Lee Pender on June 28, 2010


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