• Mashable, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:42 PM

Either consumers really love Windows or they just really hated its last version, Vista. According to Amazon UK, the latest iteration of Microsoft's operating system, Windows 7, is the biggest grossing pre-order product of all time. Yes, ever bigger than Harry Potter.

"The launch of Windows 7 has superseded everyone's expectations, storming ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the biggest grossing pre-order product of all-time at Amazon.co.uk, and demand is still going strong," said Amazon UK's managing director Brian McBride. Mashable says consumers won't be disappointed, and describes Windows 7 as feeling faster and leaner, as well as looking nicer than Vista.

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