{"id":5316,"date":"2010-02-03T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"windows-7-fastest-selling-os-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/5316-windows-7-fastest-selling-os-ever","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 fastest selling OS ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 has become the fastest selling operating system (OS) ever released. This enabled the company to post record breaking results in its most recent financial quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The hit OS has sold more than 60 million licenses globally since its launch in October 2009. It is now supposedly in use on 7.5-percent of the world&rsquo;s PCs, an impressive feat considering it has only been available for just over 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>Windows XP still has the largest install base with 66.3-percent of the world&rsquo;s PCs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Exceptional demand for Windows 7 led to the positive top-line growth for the company. Our continuing commitment to managing costs allowed us to drive earnings performance ahead of the revenue growth,&rdquo; said Peter Klein, chief financial officer at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft recently announced its biggest revenue results ever, taking in $19.02 billion in the first financial quarter of 2010 (October 09 &ndash; December 09).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s hit OS breaks records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}