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Amazon: Windows 7 is Bigger Than Harry Potter


How can Windows 7 be bigger than Harry Potter, you ask? That box can't be more than 15 inches tall, while Daniel Radcliffe is at least 5'8''!

Well, what Amazon meant when they said that was this: Windows 7 is the biggest grossing pre-order product of all time on

Even Amazon UK's MD Brian McBride sounds a bit surprised: "The launch of Windows 7 has superseded everyone's expectations, storming ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the biggest grossing pre-order product of all-time at, and demand is still going strong." We're not; we wrote earlier that Windows 7 is being preordered a lot more than Vista, and that trend obviously hasn't changed until the very last day.

I've been testing Windows 7 since the first beta and while I have my qualms about it, one can't deny that it's better than Vista: it feels faster, looks nicer, the unnecessary fat *cough* sidebar *cough* was trimmed and it has a whole lot better hardware and driver support. And one also cannot deny that Windows XP was released in October 2001, which means that Windows users have been waiting eight long years for a decent replacement for their operating system. Tomorrow, they'll be getting one; no wonder they're excited.

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