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Microsoft Corp. has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 in its first few weeks than any previous version of the operating system, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said.
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As of December, Apple’s Mac OS X commanded 9.63 percent of the OS market, according to Net Applications, while Microsoft still led the way, accounting for more than 88 percent of the operating-system market.

But the real story behind those figures is Apple’s meteoric rise in the market. Just one year prior, in [...]

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There is an Ars Technica piece suggesting that the media’s coverage of Vista’s flaws portrayed the operating system as worse than it was, and, if early reports on Windows 7 are any indication, positive hype will create the opposite reaction this time around.
Quoting: “… the problem is exaggeration; … bloggers and journalists [...]

InfoWorld’s Randall Kennedy examines Windows 7 from the kernel up, subjecting the “pre-beta” to a battery of benchmarks to find any signs that the OS will be faster, more responsive, and less resource-intensive than the bloated Vista, as Microsoft suggests.
Identical thread counts at the kernel level suggest to Kennedy that Windows 7 is a “minor [...]