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Published 11/06/2009 by SiliconValley.com

Windows 7 enjoys a good opening

Posted by John Murrell on November 6th, 2009 at 5:57 am | Categorized as Uncategorized | Tagged as Microsoft, Windows 7

Making straight-up comparisons of sales figures for the launches of various Windows versions is tricky business for the same reason that you can’t...

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