Microsoft sells 400 million licenses for Windows 7

11 July 2011, in its Worldwide Partner Conference this year, Microsoft announced that it has sold more than 400 million licenses of Windows 7 since its launch in 2009. 

Windows 7 has been adding many users as Facebook or Google +.

On 11 July, Microsoft reminded us once again and weight control, reporting that he has sold more than 400 million licenses of its operating system in the 20 months or more since its inception. This comes after news three months ago (just three months) where it was announced that the figures had reached 350 million licenses sold and remember that a year ago, in July 2010, Microsoft boasted of having 175 million licenses sold.

According to a new publication on his blog, the computer giant is selling 7copias Windows 7 every second. The operating system is used in 27.3 of the world's computers.

But what about Windows 8? The new OS is planned to be launched in 2012 and did not look anything like the current Windows 7.

It seems that Microsoft is positioning Windows 7 on a par with Windows 8, stating that many companies could "run a combination of Windows applications and devices 8 together with applications and PC Windows 7." Hopefully soon clarify what these statements mean.

Besides the good news in sales, Microsoft began this year its Global Partner Conference on 11 July with the announcement of the upcoming beta of the next version of Windows Intune. The company also shared his impressions of the new ultra thin laptop Sony VAIO Premium SA, which could have a battery of up to 15 hrs duration.

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Microsoft could end the Windows brand

Andy Lees, President of Windows Phone, spoke at the Worldwide Partner Conference Microsoft about the company's plans to establish a unified ecosystem that includes PCs, tablets, smartphones and televisions. The statements from sources close to Microsoft suggests that the end of Windows could be close.

Nilay Patel posted on This is my next few days before, a source had told him about plans for the Redmond company to develop an operating system that was executed in tablets and smartphones but also game consoles, televisions and computers, and could see the light in about 4 years, coinciding with the end of the cycle (10 years) of the Xbox 360 and the 3 years is expected to take the path of Windows 8.

If we think about the current state of the supply of computers and mobile devices loses sense approach, in fact the same Lees said in the same event that Microsoft has no plans to produce tablets running Windows 7 Phone because they want to offer more powerful capabilities. But on the way towards the establishment of unified ecosystem and are Apple and Google, so the more likely that Microsoft is already working on adaptable operating system at all levels for some time.

According to the source This is my next, as part of Microsoft's strategy to establish such a unified ecosystem, managers would be considering the possibility of launching a brand new, so Windows will disappear.

It is still early to tell and many things can happen yet, as the new brand name, including Windows, but there is no doubt that this brand is the symbol of the era when computers arrived on the professional and private lives of millions people around the world.

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