A senior executive from Dell says that the release of Windows 7 has seen increased demand for PCs from Small to Medium Sized businesses. Prior to the release of Windows 7, they witnessed a slow down in PC sales as customers put off buying a new PC, which helps explain why Dell’s third quarter revenue was lower than expected.

With the October 22nd release of Windows 7, PC sales surged in the company.

“At the beginning of October, we saw demand decline as customers put off their decision to buy, to wait for Windows 7 to fully launch. As soon as Oct. 22 hit, both our consumer business and our SMB business had a very healthy increase in demand

Said Steve Felice, president of Dell’s business unit that’s focused on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

Prior to the launch of Windows 7, Dell’s PC sales were running at only 80% of the company’s expectations. However once Windows 7 was released, they witnessed a surge in PC sales up to 110%, thanks to the new operating system. And in case your thinking this was just a once off peak in sales, your wrong. This trend seems to be continuing into November as well.

We didn’t just see that increase in the last 10 days of October, we’ve now seen three weeks of November where that demand has been pretty consistently up

Dell rely’s more on large businesses and SMB’s to make up it’s sales figures more than consumers. The likes of Hewlett Packard and Acer rely more on the consumer market. They claim that their low point was the second quarter of this year,

We’re not surprised to see the recovery at Dell come a little later than others might have reported

and from now on you shall see a rise in revenue as the company recovers, so far they are on track.

“That’s exactly what we’re seeing and I think you’ll see continued strength in Q4

So it seems all those fears of Windows 7 breaking backwards compatibility and leaving behind the beloved XP, haven’t stopped businesses from updating their machines. It’s great to see that businesses are readily adopting Windows 7, as prior to release their were speculations that not many businesses would make the switch. I guess  XP mode as well as Windows 7 itself has managed to sway companies over.

This news also comes after Steve Ballmer announced that Windows 7 was selling much better than Vista

If you work for a company/business, have they made the switch to Windows 7 yet? If not what OS are you using? Let us know in the comments.

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PCWorld