W7 is boosted in part by the previous version being a dog. That heigthened sales, i.e. the "fast sell".
While it also heightened XP total sales, it tought users that always following MS is not necessary.

Win strength was the fact that the biz side taught the first users of family PC in the non-geek circles.
I see in the biz area exactly that kind of setup: a couple of big severs running a VM for each user,
and running MSTSC on old HW and sometimes linking to those VM's via Pads or their own laptops.
This has to trickle into the family area yet - it is still not the norm, but that knowlegde will grow.

>The market evidence doesn't support that. Windows 7 is the fastest selling version of Windows ever. More PCs are now running Windows 7 than XP. Business runs on Windows and you need to pay for that license, even if on a VM.
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>>agreed on the desktop *interface* side - but the biz model of selling new windows with each machine might get into trouble.
>>The machine can run on any OS, but interaction is with a VM not in need of update on new HW, unless you are a gamer.