Even before the official launch on 22 October 2009, Windows 7 was granted a predominantly positive media coverage. Microsoft reached a market share of about 1.8 percent with Windows 7, two weeks after Windows 7 had a share of 5 percent. Three months after the publication of the proliferation of Windows 7 in Germany was more than 20 percent, International at 10 percent.
In its first quarter, Microsoft has sold more than 60 million licenses of Windows 7, so far the fastest selling operating system is thus, and so the company’s profit in the previous year increased by 60 percent. By early March 2010, about 90 million licenses sold. According to Microsoft, Windows has sold about 240 million times in the first 365 days of sales seventh.
Currently, there is the global market share of about 52 percent. Up to 26 October 2012, Windows 7 has sold over 670 million copies, which can be handled by Wagga Wagga Computer Repair.
Support and updates
Originally, the support for Windows 7 should be scheduled early 2015 up to and including Home Premium and Ultimate Edition (so-called mainstream phase) and by the beginning of 2020 for the Professional and Enterprise editions (extended phase) provided by Microsoft. Thus addressed to private customers editions would have been only slightly longer than that of the pre-predecessor supports Windows XP. On 20 February 2012 was Microsoft announced that all versions are uniformly supplied to the beginning of 2020 with updates handled by Wagga Wagga Computer Repair.
The Service Pack 1 (SP1) on 16 February 2011 provided by Microsoft through its developer platform MSDN and TechNet for their members to download. The service pack has a size of up to 538 MB (32-bit) or 903 MB (64-bit) and includes mainly to the published after its release patches, but also several small stabilization and optimization.
Windows Media Center has been updated. Windows 7 includes more preinstalled codecs than any previous Windows versions, among other things, H.264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (DivX and Xvid, for example) or AAC now supported without external drivers. The same applies to the container MP4 and MOV formats. Thus, a manual re-installation of an appropriate codecs for many formats no longer necessary. Another new feature is the support of color profiles with color depths of 30 and 48 bits.
Windows 7 comes with Windows Media Player 12.0. This has a revised user interface, in which the library and the playback window are separated. By default, the music library is selected as a source for media files. In addition to Windows Media Player plays DVDs from the 12.0 mentioned in multimedia formats. There is also a preview function that allows you to hear the beginning of a title.
