Office 2007 is the best selling software of the year.
According to statistics from the analytical company NPD Group , this year the US retail software market came to life after the recession of previous years and grew by as much as 9.7%. This is a lot, considering that in 2000–2006 the market annually decreased on average by 0.5%. Retailers in ecstasy. They are ready to kiss the feet of those who performed such a "miracle." In the role of benefactor, it is easy to guess that Microsoft, with little support from Apple and Adobe.
The most salable program of the year was the MS Office 2007 office suite, which captured 17.4% of the entire software market in the United States (in dollar terms), even with computer games.
Another popular segment in 2007 was operating systems. The volume of their sales increased by half. According to the classification of NPD, this is the most expensive software class with an average price of $ 166.71. Among all the operating systems, Windows Vista sold best. Overall, Windows products made up 78.2% of the operating system market, Mac OS X - 21.3%, and Linux - only 0.5%. This is not surprising, because popular Linux distributions are free, so they are not reflected in the statistics.
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In addition to the aforementioned programs, analysts point out the commercial success of Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Apple Final Cut Studio 2. Like Vista and Office 2007, these programs were sold in several price categories, including ultra-expensive and ultra-cheap versions, and this also explains their cumulative success. It seems that this pricing policy of software manufacturers is becoming a standard trick.
Apparently, the surge in 2007 in the software market is temporary, and in the future the volume of software sales will continue to decrease. Experts attribute this to the harmful effects of the open source “virus”, as well as other factors. For example, the sales of PC games according to statistics is reduced by 4% per year, because gamers run away to virtual worlds like WoW, where payment takes place by subscription, so in reality the turnover of the gaming market only grows.
The most salable program of the year was the MS Office 2007 office suite, which captured 17.4% of the entire software market in the United States (in dollar terms), even with computer games.
Another popular segment in 2007 was operating systems. The volume of their sales increased by half. According to the classification of NPD, this is the most expensive software class with an average price of $ 166.71. Among all the operating systems, Windows Vista sold best. Overall, Windows products made up 78.2% of the operating system market, Mac OS X - 21.3%, and Linux - only 0.5%. This is not surprising, because popular Linux distributions are free, so they are not reflected in the statistics.
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In addition to the aforementioned programs, analysts point out the commercial success of Adobe Creative Suite 3 and Apple Final Cut Studio 2. Like Vista and Office 2007, these programs were sold in several price categories, including ultra-expensive and ultra-cheap versions, and this also explains their cumulative success. It seems that this pricing policy of software manufacturers is becoming a standard trick.
Apparently, the surge in 2007 in the software market is temporary, and in the future the volume of software sales will continue to decrease. Experts attribute this to the harmful effects of the open source “virus”, as well as other factors. For example, the sales of PC games according to statistics is reduced by 4% per year, because gamers run away to virtual worlds like WoW, where payment takes place by subscription, so in reality the turnover of the gaming market only grows.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/16546/
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