Arriving in the same week Google has publicly previewed an early build of its Web-based Chrome operating system (OS), market leader Microsoft has moved to reiterate its positional strength by enthusiastically beating its Windows 7 drum.
Arrrgh! Windows 7... gooood! Image: Fuyoh!/Flickr.
More pointedly, the Redmond-based software titan has announced that its recently launched Windows 7 operating platform is selling with twice the momentum of any other entrant to the existing Windows portfolio.
Speaking at the annual Microsoft meeting in Bellevue, Washington, chief executive officer Steve Ballmer was keen to point out that Windows 7 has “already sold twice as many units” than any other Windows package across a comparable period of time post-launch.
While Microsoft has not yet divulged any concrete sales numbers to back its posturing, the Windows 7 operating system, which has been constructed atop its largely unpopular Vista predecessor, has received predominantly positive critical reviews and certainly appears to have been embraced by consumers.
Microsoft enjoys around 92 percent of the market share when it comes to the Windows operating system – mainly because it comes bundled as standard with almost all PCs.
Google hopes to elbow itself some room in the OS sector with the upcoming Chrome operating system, which more closely resembles a Web browser, and can reach the desktop in less than 10 seconds thanks to bypassing much of the conventional boot-up process.
The Chrome OS is expected to officially launch during the holiday season of 2010.
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