Microsoft Romania wants Windows 7 to match Vista’s market share in nine months

The Windows 7 operating system, launched by Microsoft on October 22nd, could reach a 19% market share within the next nine months, the current share of the Vista OS, Calin Tatomir (photo), general manager of Microsoft Romania, said on Thursday. “We are hoping to reach this share within the next nine months and even exceed it,” Tatomir said. In June, Tatomir said the operating system that dominates the Romanian market, with an around 50% share, is the XP version, and that Windows 7 would sell 3-4 times better than Vista and account for 70-80% of the market. Microsoft launched the Windows 7 operating system in 12 languages globally on October 22nd. According to Microsoft data, the trial version of Windows 7 was downloaded by almost 100,000 users in Romania. The Romanian business of the producer of the Windows operating system climbed by 34.4% last year, to 109.9 million RON (29.8 million euros), and its net profit rose 3.2%, to 19.2 million RON (5.2 million euros), according to data sent by the company to the Ministry of Finance. US-based Microsoft is the world’s biggest software applications producer.