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Windows Vista sells nearly 40 million licenses in the first 100 days (http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/microsoft-vista-sells-nea...).

This is an operating system which received a strong negative reaction from many in the (non-Microsoft-worshiping) tech press. It just goes to show you how out of touch many of them are with what really excites users.




Vista took 7 months to reach 4% market share, 7 took 3 weeks.

7 sold 90 million licenses in its first 4 months.


The iPad took 4 weeks to sell 1 million units.

The iPhone 3GS sold 1 million units in 3 days. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/03/ipad_sales_top_one_m...)


The 3GS and the iPad occupy completely different segments and markets (one of which didn't quite exist before the device was created), Vista and 7 don't.




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