Microsoft is still seeing a lot of interest in its Windows 7 computer software launched last year and a new budget cycle will help a gradual recovery in business spending, its chief operating officer said.

"We have a lot of interest in the Windows 7 refresh," Kevin Turner told an audience at the London School of Economics on Wednesday. "There's lots of momentum around that."

Turner said Microsoft expects 300 million PCs to be sold this year. That should be a boost to Windows 7, the new version of the software that runs more than nine in 10 of the world's PCs, but he said the picture was mixed globally, with varying rates of economic recovery.

The company has sold 90 million copies of Windows 7 so far since its October 2009 launch.

via: Washington Post