Microsoft (MSFT) last Friday announced first quarter results, net income fell to 3.57 billion U.S. dollars, but earnings and revenue were better than Wall Street estimates, share prices rose in early trading 9%, due to the personal computer market revealed signs of stabilization and Windows software and Xbox game sales far better than expected.

Last week, Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows7 officially launched, as the world’s largest number of operating systems, Windows7 launched would trigger a new round of replacement of personal computers tide, when the last generation, after the failure of the operating system Vista, PC users actually accumulated a very high purchasing power, after all, XP has the product in 2002, though XP is still useful, but its function has not keep up with the times.

Absorption of a failure on the experience of Vista, the Microsoft and various vendors work together to prepare for the new products listed well, Windows7 launch has authorized 8,500 kinds of compatible software, only when compared to the previous Vista release more than 2,700 species.

In terms of performance, Windows7 also required less computing capacity, it runs on the old computer also terrific.

The launch of Microsoft Windows7 already not allowed to failure, comparing to the market launch in Vista has been quite different: First, Apple’s market share has been growing, many users will use their BootCamp as excessive, and thus turn to Apple Computer, the second, cloud computing technology has begun to spread, with the family for the operating system, the relative decline in the demand of computing power and functionility, then a web browser is the only tool required in cloud computing envirnoment, and Google will introduce of lightweight PC platform operating system Chrome OS next year, coupled with the Netbook using will change the future direction of the PC market, Windows7 launched at this moment, will be far-reaching impact on the personal computer market.

Reeve Lin