Office 2007 wins big?

Microsoft's latest office suite " sells like hot cakes ", thereby " supporting " the US software market to record highs since 1999, research firm NPD Group said. know.

Not including game software, the US software retail market has spent $ 3.3 billion in 2007, up 15% from the figure of $ 2.9 billion in 2006.

This growth is even more noticeable, knowing that the revenue of the US software market almost stalled from 2000 until 2006.

According to NPD Group, the two main "hormones" that bring vitality to the market are Office 2007 and Windows Vista operating system.

Even these two products contribute up to 80% of the "growth" of the market.

Last week, Microsoft said Vista's sales surpassed the 100 million mark, despite criticism from analysts and early users.

The company even became more optimistic about the business situation of Windows Vista in 2008, because many large businesses and organizations often wait until the release of Vista SP1 (expected for the first quarter of this year) to be officially Upgrade to the new operating system.

Good news for Microsoft

Source: Microsoft Blog Although the amount of Vista disks sold in the first year was not as good as XP in 2001, at least, it helped overall Windows revenue by more than 40% over the previous year.

Office 2007's "achievements" are even better, up to 100% compared to sales of Office 2003 when it was just released. According to NPD, Office accounted for 17% of all retail software sales in 2007.

" This is indeed a blockbuster product of the year, " NPD commented. One noteworthy information is that the amount of Windows XP installation discs sold has not increased, suggesting that the "reverse upgrade phenomenon" from Vista back to XP that the press mentioned recently has been greatly exaggerated.

" I don't think that users are reckless against the general trend, even if they want to do it, " commented analyst Jack Swenson of NPD.

In addition to Microsoft products, a remarkable trend of 2007 is that security software revenue has increased by 55% compared to 2006.