Wow that is a huge amount of sales. Just proves what a complete flop Vista was! If only Microsoft had got it right first time a lot more people wouldn't have gone to Apple/Linux. Great job on Windows 7 though!

Oh, so you know how many copies of Windows 7 sold? Interesting...

Sincerely, you you had wait the release of Windows 7 to buy a new computer would you say :"Oh nooooo, I want my XP back" ?
No, so Windows 7 will be the next OS you will use because..... you have no choice.
If you don't want to use a 10 years old OS (I mean XP), you are not going to use Vista (everybody say it was crap, even if they did not test it) because there is Windows 7 now.

Now do you think everybody is buying Windows 7 because it is really the best OS on the market or because there is no really other choices ?

And if you just buy a new computer with Windows 7, are you going to tell everybody that you want your XP back if you think that Windows 7 does not worth the money you paid ?

So Windows 7 has to be a success like XP was after Windows Me... even if it is not perfect.
And I am sure we are going to have a lot of SP because like XP was, Windows 7 is not perfect. A perfect OS would be one we would not see. We would just see the UI and it is not really the OS.

I really hope this "rush" holds out. I can use a new "stable" OS. I will still dual boot once i install Win7, just in case. You cant be to careful with Microsoft.

Ah percentages. How deceiving they can be! Let's say they sold 100,000 copies of Vista in that time period. That means they sold 334,000 copies of 7. Pretty respectable. But if they sold only 1000 copies of Vista, they sold only 3,340 copies of 7. I'd like to see hard numbers.

Given the trend...it looks like M$ has done a great job so far (in comparison to Vista)!

Popularity of MS products is inversely proportional to cuteness of the name.

I agree with almost all of the above posts. There really was no doubt that this would happen, people were reluctant to upgrade XP to Vista because XP was solid and Vista was pretty different. So its easy to ride that one out. 7 though, its out a few years later, and XP is getting really old now.

The only thing I really want to add is that Vista's install really isn't much different than 7, and it is MUCH easier than XP. So 7 isn't doing anything for the first time, a lot of these 'innovations' happened in Vista.

Maybe one of the most intelligent posts offered here on the news board!