bill - 12:47 am on Oct 22, 2010 (gmt 0)

Windows 7 was released October 22, 2009. [webmasterworld.com] According to Microsoft, Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history with 240 million licenses sold.

Microsoft is celebrating with a blog post that contains Top 7 lists of various Windows bloggers along with top 7 tweets, press quotes, etc. You get the idea...

Celebrating Windows 7 at 1 Year [windowsteamblog.com] Today’s an exciting day! We are announcing that more than 240 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold. Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history. As of September, Windows 7 was running on 93% of new consumer PCs and has over 17% global OS market share (according to Net Applications as of October 1st). There is an amazing array of great PCs out on the market today. Six months after launch, 100% (over 18,000) of our OEM partners were selling Windows 7 PCs versus 70% for Windows Vista PCs at a comparable time period.