Office and Vista lead to software sales boom
According to research conducted by the NPD Group, Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista have lead to an all-time high in software sales for 2007. Overall, the US non-game PC software market at retail stores totalled $3.3bn in 2007, a 15 per cent increase over the $2.9bn generated in 2006.
Sales of Office 2007 are up 100 per cent compared with sales of Office 2003 in its initial months, leading the latest version to account for 17 per cent (by dollar volume) of all software sold at retail stores last year.
