Top Selling Software
The best-selling software in the United States, according to the NPD Group, is MS Office 2003 Student / Teacher Edition. Released in October 2003, this office software package was most interesting to customers in 2006; Its cost is $ 136.91.
TurboTax 2005 Deluxe With State ($ 38.41) ranked second, Norton Internet Security 2006 ($ 65.39) ranked third. Among operating systems, only MS Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade ($ 93.34) was able to get into Top10.
In general, according to the statistical report , the level of software sales fell by 2% compared to 2005 and amounted to $ 2.9 billion. Business software and system utilities showed a certain increase, but the overall statistics were more affected by the fall in sales of operating systems and financial programs . According to NPD Group representative Chris Swenson, the decline in OS sales is associated with a smaller number of users who need to switch to Windows XP (the main wave of transitions to this OS ended in 2005).
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Thus, the business software sector ranked first in sales (at the expense of MS Office), and system utilities took second place (mainly due to Symantec products).
TurboTax 2005 Deluxe With State ($ 38.41) ranked second, Norton Internet Security 2006 ($ 65.39) ranked third. Among operating systems, only MS Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade ($ 93.34) was able to get into Top10.
In general, according to the statistical report , the level of software sales fell by 2% compared to 2005 and amounted to $ 2.9 billion. Business software and system utilities showed a certain increase, but the overall statistics were more affected by the fall in sales of operating systems and financial programs . According to NPD Group representative Chris Swenson, the decline in OS sales is associated with a smaller number of users who need to switch to Windows XP (the main wave of transitions to this OS ended in 2005).
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Thus, the business software sector ranked first in sales (at the expense of MS Office), and system utilities took second place (mainly due to Symantec products).
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/3221/
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