Posted on Monday, February 19 2007 @ 1:20 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
While sales of Windows Vista are slightly disappointing,
Office 2007 is doing quite well. Reports indicate the new office suit is selling a lot better than Office 2003 in the first week of launch.
Office 2007, which launched the week of Jan 28, took in 106.3 % more dollars for retailers than the previous version, the NPD Group said. In addition, retailers sold 108.6 % more units. "It's hard to get anything bad out of these good numbers," NPD analyst Chris Swenson said.
On the business side, the numbers were almost as rosy. For the month of December, value added resellers reported that the amount of revenue from Office 2007 soared 97.8 % over Office 2003, and the number of units sold jumped 61.3 percent, the NPD Group said. The previous version's first full month of sales was in September 2003.
The solid business sales surprised Swenson. "With almost zero advertising and marketing until the January 30, 2007, retail launch, I expected U.S. commercial license sales of Office 2007 to be significantly below the sales of the previous version in its first full month on the market," he said. "They weren't. Sales of Office 2007 were significantly better."
