Leopard Records Impressive Sales For Apple

Seattle (dbTechno) - Apple made the announcement that about 9% of Max OS X users upgraded to Max OS X Leopard over the weekend as they were all among the first to take part in what has already become a very successful launch of this new OS for Apple.

Apple managed to sell through 2 million copies of Leopard between Friday and Sunday night which is very impressive for an opening weekend of a brand new operating system being put to market. This 2 million number in sales includes online sales, boxed copies, as well as new Macs which were pre-installed with Leopard.

Back when Apple launched their other OS, Tiger, they did not sell 2 million copies until almost two months after launch. Leopard did it in less than a weekend.

The installed user base of Mac OS X computers is currently at 23 million users giving the OS a nice base to build off of to get people to upgrade to the new OS and allow for new Mac buyers to have it pre-installed already.

These sales compare to Microsoft who sold 20 million copies of Windows Vista in the first month it went on sale. By the end of 2008 the installed base of Windows will be around 1 billion users.

Still though Apple is happy with the progress as these sales are very impressive for Leopard thus far.