Windows 7 preorders better than Vista and XP combined
WinInfo | at | by Mike
And so it begins: On Tuesday, online retailing giant Amazon.com began shipping its Windows 7 preorders to customers around the globe for delivery on Thursday. But Amazon also had some good news to share with the world: Windows 7 is already a bestseller, and its preorders are stronger than the preorders for both Windows Vista and Windows XP... combined.
Amazon UK representatives were even more effusive than their US counterparts. "The launch of Windows 7 has superseded everyone's expectations, storming ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the biggest-grossing preorder product of all time at Amazon.co.uk, and demand is still going strong," said Brian McBride, a managing director at Amazon UK. "Over the past three months, only Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol has sold more copies than Windows 7, which is an incredible achievement for a software product."