Windows Vista sells 40M licenses in 100 days

CNNMoney reports

Microsoft has sold nearly 40 million Windows Vista licenses in the first 100 days that the latest version of the operating system has been available, Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday.

Gates said an accelerating consumer shift to digital lifestyles had helped make the operating system the fastest selling in history, and that premium editions have accounted for 78 percent of Vista sales.

This is huge. Microsoft CashCow Windows is still alive and Microsoft can milk it for some more time until Linux goes mainstream.