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Windows 7 sends PC sales up 40% in first week
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 @ 10:35am

The launch of Windows 7 has triggered at least a temporary spike in PC sales, Morgan Stanley analyst Katheryn Huberty says in an investment note issued yesterday. Pointing to NPD sales data, the researcher notes that computer sales jumped about 40 percent during the week of Microsoft's OS launch compared to the same time a year earlier. The number is partly offset by buyers holding off on purchases during the previous two weeks, when sales dropped 29 percent and then 2 percent versus 2008, but is well above earlier weeks, when sales were up by at most 19 percent.

The analyst adds that the sales jump isn't the product of a glut of Windows 7 PCs being shipped to the channel and shows that inventory levels at the very start of November are actually below average where they were high in the first half of September. A shift on such a level suggests many PC vendors cleared out stock of Vista-based systems and have had early success with Windows 7.

While the jump is a positive sign for Microsoft, Huberty declines to predict whether or not the sales spike is evidence of a major trend or simply a temporary burst as those who had waited for Windows 7 buy their new systems. Microsoft's own CEO believes the OS will have little impact in the long term and that most will simply get Windows 7 in the same time it normally takes them to replace a given PC.





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  • Reader reaction
    Found 7 comments
    Math 101 267568
    First
    100 - 30% = 70.
    Then
    70 + 40% = 98

    What's the gain?
    Comment posted by: machobbes
    Math 201 267572
    X^2008 = Y1
    X^2009 = Y2

    10/17/09
    Y2/Y1 = 70% - 30% loss

    10/24/09
    Y2/Y1 = 140% - 40% gain
    Comment posted by: gitcypher
    Your Math Score Today 267575
    @machobbes = F ;-)

    Comment posted by: slapppy
    Give 'Em Credit 267579
    Come on, folks! Let's over-extend our credit a bit, here. It looks like Microsoft finally has an operating system that works really well compared to all of their other efforts - probably all of their other efforts combined.

    We should be celebrating WITH them ... you know: partying like it's 1984.
    Comment posted by: Foe Hammer
    Need better advertising 267582
    These companies need to advertise better. I have no idea why anyone would wait to hold off a purchase when most makers were giving away a free upgrade to win 7 when it was released (and it really is a free upgrade - no shipping costs or anything for my boss with his new - gag, cough - Gateway - hack, hack - computer).

    And I wonder how many got their new computer and it ended up coming with Vista with a drop-in or 'free upgrade' notice for 7, and it wasn't pre-installed.
    Comment posted by: testudo
    And.. 267587
    They had to replace their busted stuff from last year.
    Comment posted by: Roehlstation
    No. 267588
    What "works really well about Windows 7?"

    My reasons for not using Windows had nothing to do with stability, or viruses. Windows has poor UI consistency and is just plain cumbersome and distracting to work with. Windows 7 does not appear to have changed this.
    Comment posted by: hayesk
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