Microsoft has reported a strong revenue for the 4th quarter thanks to Windows 7. They have also announced that windows 7 has hit the 175 Million mark for licenses sold.

Windows 7 was released to manufacturing one year ago, Microsoft say it?s the fastest selling operating system in history and has projected to sell 300 million by the end of the year.

Windows 7 success began before it was even widely available. Released for retail in October 2009 it was received with much praise. It?s now running on 16% of all PCs globally and is likely to overtake Vista?s market share in in the next few weeks. It?s not just Windows 7 that has seen success, Internet Explorer 8 has seen a large uptake. It still maintains the most popular slot on the browser market, and IE9 is not too far away from being released.