Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date
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Re: Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date
#2Which might simply mean that this is the approximate amount of non-Apple laptops (and desktops?) sold since Win8's launch, because most of them are now sold only with Win8 licenses [0]. Hardly a mark of success, but of MS's (doomed?) pervasiveness.
[0] e.g., http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...
Re: Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date
#3Which might simply mean that this is the approximate amount of non-Apple laptops (and desktops?) sold since Win8's launch, because most of them are now sold only with Win8 licenses [0]. Hardly a mark of success, but of MS's (doomed?) pervasiveness. [0] e.g., http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...
"Microsoft had not released any sales figures for Windows 8 other than saying the company sold 4 million upgrade licenses of the operating system to those with previous versions of Windows during the first three days it was available."
That's 10% of the total in the first three days to existing users.
Including myself.
Re: Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date
#4Which might simply mean that this is the approximate amount of non-Apple laptops (and desktops?) sold since Win8's launch, because most of them are now sold only with Win8 licenses [0]. Hardly a mark of success, but of MS's (doomed?) pervasiveness. [0] e.g., http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...
"Microsoft had not released any sales figures for Windows 8 other than saying the company sold 4 million upgrade licenses of the operating system to those with previous versions of Windows during the first three days it was available." That's 10% of the total in the first three days to existing users. Including myself.
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Re: Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date
#5Which might simply mean that this is the approximate amount of non-Apple laptops (and desktops?) sold since Win8's launch, because most of them are now sold only with Win8 licenses [0]. Hardly a mark of success, but of MS's (doomed?) pervasiveness. [0] e.g., http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...
"Microsoft had not released any sales figures for Windows 8 other than saying the company sold 4 million upgrade licenses of the operating system to those with previous versions of Windows during the first three days it was available." That's 10% of the total in the first three days to existing users. Including myself.
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Re: Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date
#6Which might simply mean that this is the approximate amount of non-Apple laptops (and desktops?) sold since Win8's launch, because most of them are now sold only with Win8 licenses [0]. Hardly a mark of success, but of MS's (doomed?) pervasiveness. [0] e.g., http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...
"Microsoft had not released any sales figures for Windows 8 other than saying the company sold 4 million upgrade licenses of the operating system to those with previous versions of Windows during the first three days it was available." That's 10% of the total in the first three days to existing users. Including myself.
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Re: Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date
#7Yeah, I bought one of your licenses Microsoft. I didn't want to buy it. Given the choice I would not have bought it. And quite clearly as evidenced in my past week of Twitter I've been trying to get rid of it. Alas, to no avail...
Re: Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date
#8I wonder how many they actually sold. Many are simply bought with new computers, and quite a few are probably the free upgrades that hardware vendors were promising for new Windows 7 computers just before the release.
Re: Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date
#9The vast majority of these licenses were sold to OEM's, who now have to "get rid of them" in the market. So we'll see how long that takes before they ask for another bulk of licenses from Microsoft. Could be weeks or could be months. If it's months, next time they'll request much fewer licenses.
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