Windows 7 Surpasses Mac OS X in Sales [Microsoft Sold More Windows 7 Copies Than All Mac OS X Versions Sold to Date]

You can go ahead and act all surprised but that doesn’t make it less true. It looks like Microsoft has managed to sell a lot of Windows 7 copies. In fact the Redmond-based company has sold more Windows 7 copies than all the Mac OS X version sold to date.

Sure you’ll say that Microsoft has its claws nicely wrapped around the world when it comes to computer operating systems. Windows is the most widely used OS. Whether we’re talking about Windows 7, Windows XP and even Vista, and whether we’re talking about legit or pirated copies, the fact is that Microsoft still dominates the OS market.

Sure Apple has a totally stable and “out of the box” OS but not everyone can afford to buy a machine running Mac OS X. It’s not surprising at all that companies would rather buy an OS that can be used on various machines thus cutting costs significantly instead of having to buy more expensive Apple computers.

What’s surprising is that so many people decided to upgrade to Windows 7 in more than a month after Windows 7’s release. It looks like the latest OS launched by Microsoft powers between 5% and 5.14% of all computers online now. The truth is that so many people have been waiting to dump Windows Vista that you shouldn’t be surprised in any way to see Windows 7 sale grow at such rate. In fact that’s another proof that Vista was a poor product which hurt even more the Windows brand.

Steve Ballmer himself told shareholders last week that Windows 7 has sold twice the number of copies as any other Microsoft operating system in the same time span, without specifying any numbers. Although the comparison is welcomed we will keep in mind that computers nowadays are a lot more cheaper and hence there are a lot more computer users than a few years ago when Windows XP was launched. So it’s only natural for those sales to go up. Windows 8 for that matter, will sell even better.

What’s your opinion on Windows 7? Would you switch to Mac OS X instead?