150 Million Windows 7 Licenses Sold

Microsoft Corp. has announced that it had managed to sell 150 million licenses of Microsoft Windows 7 operating system released last October, which essentially makes the new OS the fastest selling operating system in the world.

“First off, we are excited to announce that Windows 7 has sold 150 million licenses to-date. As I’ve said before, Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history with 7 copies of Windows 7 sold every second,” said Brandon LeBlanc, a spokesman for Microsoft, in a blog post.

Approximately 75% of enterprises are looking at Windows 7 for their organization, according to Microsoft. Moreover, since the economic situation gets brighter, consumers are accelerating the pace of buying new personal computers, which virtually all come with Windows 7 pre-installed.

According to estimates of IDC, sales of personal computers will total 355 million units in 2010, which means that around a million of personal computers is sold daily. As a result, it is not a surprise that over six months after the introduction Microsoft may claim 150 million copies of Windows 7 sold.

Minesweeper – Funny Game By Microsoft

Various up gradations are present in different versions but the game is always present as a bundle package along with Microsoft windows.

This is a very funny game by Microsoft and it increases a person’s patience too. This is not a two-player game and is very simple to play. The primary objective of the game is to locate all the mines present in the field. Since it involves fast mathematical calculations, it tends to sharpen our calculation speed as well.

At the beginning of the game, a player sees a matrix of grey blocks on the screen. The size of the matrix box depends on the level of the game selected. Once, a player clicks on a block that does not have a mine, it indicates a number present behind it. The number indicates the total number of mines surrounding that particular block in the grid.

As we can see that, a particular block in the grid can have a maximum of eight mines surrounding it. These eight blocks are supposed to be surrounding the particular block in question. If a block has the number five written on it, it means that there are five mines surrounding that particular block that are unturned. The player will then click on the next most probable block that cannot have a mine under any circumstance. This requires sharper calculation as a particular block is present next to many similar blocks and it gets confusing as the game progresses.

A person can also use a flag to mark a particular block that he suspects to be a mine. This feature is present for convenience of the player. It becomes easier to mark a particular block as mine and continue exploring other blocks as it gives a count of the mines and helps in further calculation of other blocks in the grid.

Sometimes, clicking on a particular block in the grid opens many blocks together in a shape. This eases the game and it gives idea of where can the mines be located within blocks that are just adjacent to the shape opened.

This game bases on patterns and if a player understands the patternsFree Articles, it very easy for him to complete the game.