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Well, what Amazon meant when they said that was this: Windows 7 is the biggest grossing pre-order product of all time on Amazon.co.uk.
Even Amazon UK's MD Brian McBride sounds a bit surprised: "The launch of Windows 7 has superseded everyone's expectations, storming ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the biggest grossing pre-order product of all-time at Amazon.co.uk, and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." We're not; we wrote earlier that Windows 7 is being preordered a lot more than Vista, and that trend obviously hasn't changed until the very last day.