Microsoft sold approximately 20 million copies of vista. That is not a lot, considering the time span the project was in development and the release of the earlier product, windows XP. Steve Ballmer seemed like an optimistic man, in the recently concluded Macworld expo. According to BBC and CNN, both featuring headlines in the technology column, Microsoft is said to give away the next version of windows 7 as a free upgrade to select people.

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What does this mean?
1. Microsoft accepts that the major release of Vista was a huge flop, despite claiming the opposite in the media conferences.

2. Microsoft windows is the most used operating system in the world. With only 20 million copies of Vista sold, Vista is assumed to be running on over 300 million systems. Microsoft failed to take in to consideration of the piracy and the legal ownership.

3. While Vista demanded a compulsory upgrade of your computer, windows 7 is more of a performance builder, rather than the fancy application stuff. Another move, copied right from apple, just that the applications were not built properly in windows. Windows 7 will probably boot in your system with the existing configuration.

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