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Today Steve Ballmer, chef executive office of Microsoft and spoke at the 2010 CES Keynote where he announced some not so surprising statistics about the sales of Windows 7.

• Windows 7 is by far the fastest selling operating system in history. PC sales jumped nearly 50 percent the week Windows 7 launched.

• On Black Friday, retailers sold 63 percent more PCs than they did the year before.

• According to NPD, the 2009 holiday season saw greater than 50 percent year-over-year growth for Windows PC sales.

Steve also announced a range of new touch-enabled Windows 7 slate PC’s including one from HP which was running the Amazon Kindle software that is going to be released later this year.

By Alan Burchill

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