Windows 7 has sold 400 million licenses

[javajolt]

During the Day 1 keynote of our annual Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Steve Ballmer revealed that Windows 7 has officially sold 400 million licenses to-date.
 
That equates to 7 copies of Windows 7 sold a second.
 
Windows 7 is now running on 27.13% of all PCs worldwide. And of PCs running Windows 7 in the U.S., Internet Explorer 9 is now the most popular modern browser. Internet Explorer 9 is running on 17% of Windows 7 PCs worldwide.
 
The new line from Microsoft is..
 
Windows 7 is the path to Windows 8.
 
Watch out for that tag line…
 
They believe that in the future, enterprise environments will be running a combination of Windows 8 devices and apps alongside Windows 7 PCs and apps.

[samurusawyer]

Some of the Expected features of Windows 8

1.   New Welcome screen
2.   Modern Task Manager
3.   Portable Workspaces
4.   Aero auto-colourisation
5.   Hybrid Booting
6.   Simple system ‘reset’
7.   Ribbons in Windows Explorer
8.   ARM processor ‘tablet support’
9.   Genuine center
10.   Push notifications
11.   Improved disk cleanup
12.   Modern Reader PDF support
13.   Internet Explorer 10
14.   Internet Explorer ‘Immersive’
15.   SmartScreen file filter
16.   Windows App Store
17.   Step-by-step install
18.   ISO mounting
19.   Native wake on LAN
20.   Webcam application
21.   Codename ‘Redhawk’
22.   Streaming Manager