Bill Gates must have been thinking that why Windows latest version wasn't named  windows 8 or 10 ? -  as microsoft says officially that Windows '7' sells '7' copies per second (hope you got the pun I am trying to make ) .

In a official windows blog post it was announced that Windows 7 has sold 150 million licenses to-date which works out to be seven per second.Windows 7 is by far the “fastest selling operating system in history,” according to Microsoft. Microsoft estimates that 75 percent of enterprises are currently evaluating Windows 7. Any guesses on how fast we get to 300 million copies sold?

Looking over the past nine months of vulnerabilities and updates from Microsoft offers compelling evidence for making the move to Windows 7 as well. Windows XP is inherently less secure than Windows 7, and many organizations still stuck on Windows XP are also still using Internet Explorer 6--which is essentially an invitation to attackers. Even in situations where both Windows XP and Windows 7 are vulnerable to the same flaw, exploiting it generally has far less severe consequences on the newer, more secure Windows 7 platform.

With many companies still in the planning stages, and ramping up to deploy Windows 7, it seems that Windows 7 sales could remain brisk for some time. The continued success of Windows 7 will also most likely result in the continued success of PC sales, and Internet Explorer 8 market share. We shall see.

Windows Live Essentials

In other Microsoft news, Windows Live Essentials (which includes Hotmail, Messenger, Movie Maker, and Photo Gallery) public beta debutes.Windows Live Essentials beta requires Windows Vista or Windows 7, and is available in English, French, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, or Spanish.  Get it here!

The new betas of Windows Live Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, and Messenger connect to photo and video sharing (SkyDrive, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, SmugMug), social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin), email (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail), blogging (Spaces, WordPress, Blogger), and document productivity (Office Web Apps) services. And the new Windows Live Sync keeps your files synchronized across multiple PCs and in the cloud.  You can even directly access your PC over the web with Sync's new remote desktop feature.