Windows Vista: Over 40 million served

At a speech given during Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2007 in Los Angeles yesterday, company chairman Bill Gates revealed that Microsoft has sold almost 40 million Windows Vista licenses during the OS's first 100 days on the market. "As of last week, we've had nearly 40 million copies sold, and so that's twice as fast as the adoption of Windows XP, the last major release that we've had," Gates said. What's more, 78 percent of those licenses were for pricey "Premium" editions of the operating system. That's almost surely a record for Windows sales and proves that despite all of the pessimism, ambivalence and outright hatred directed at Vista, Microsoft was right on the money with its optimistic predictions last year.

For more on the record sales:
- see this eWeek article