Microsoft Koefoed:windows 7 can't take Microsoft out of the trough

June 12 Foreign news, Koefoed pointed out that the macro-economic decisions, the current http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18920.html "> Economy is too bad, last quarter PC sales decreased by 15% To 17%, and the analysis agency expects the server market to remain sluggish for a long time to come. Although Windows 7 is on sale on holidays, it is still unable to reverse the current decline in IT spending.

Microsoft executive Bill Koefoed yesterday at RBC Capital CMC 2009 Investor Technology Conference to answer questions about the market Outlook for Windows 7, and overall he is optimistic about Microsoft's software business, especially the windows that will be released on October 22 7, but denies that Windows 7 can immediately lead Microsoft out of the trough.

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"So I don't think Windows 7 will be able to implement a large-scale deployment until 2010." Koefoed said, but he declined to disclose the retail price of Windows 7. The only sales highlight of Windows this year is netbooks, which were once considered "windows killers" because they only run Linux at first, but now Windows XP occupies more than 90% of netbooks.

Microsoft has placed high hopes on netbooks that the netbook is icing on the PC market, koefoed again stressing that all versions of Windows 7 can run smoothly on netbooks.