Windows 7 On More Than 10% Of PCs Worldwide Say Microsoft

This isn’t exactly new news to us all, we’ve already reported on the fact that Windows 7 holds more than 10% of the current market share and broke this barrier more than a month ago. However these stats and figures only came from Net Applications, and why they are just about as an accurate a result you could hope to get, it’s nice to hear it coming from Microsoft themselves.

On the Windows Team Blog resident in house blogger for Microsoft, Brandon LeBlanc made a post stating that Windows 7 was installed on over 10% of PCs worldwide. Just off the back of announcing impressive earnings for the third quarter ending March 31st 2010, he confirmed that they had sold well over 100 million licenses which has led to the 10% market share after just 6 short months.

Today we reported our third quarter earnings for the period ending March 31st, 2010 with a record $14.5 billion in revenue. You can read our earnings results here. Windows 7 continues to be a growth driver for Microsoft and people continue to be excited about Windows 7. How excited? Exactly 6 months after the launch on October 22, 2009, we’ve sold well over 100 million licenses of Windows 7. To put that in context, more than 10% of all PCs worldwide are already running Windows 7 today. That’s amazing!

Windows 7 seems to be well on its way and it’s certainly delivering the results that Microsoft are looking for and the consumer seems to be happy enough as well.