Despite all that we have been hearing about the poor
response to Windows 8, Microsoft Corporation(NASDAQ:MSFT) claims to have sold
about 40 million copies of its new operating system within a month of its
launch.
This was revealed in a blog post written on Tuesday by
Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc. The new Windows version was launched on October
26, and was a much awaited debut.
Right after its launch, there were reports swirling
around that adoption of the new system was extremely slow and the company's
internal targets had not been met. In fact Microsoft itself was said to have
responded to these allegation by stating that hardware vendors were to blame
for the slow start.
One of the main criticisms against the new operating
software was that that the layout and the user interface were more suited for
mobile devices than computers.
Digital Trends said that if Microsoft has indeed sold
40 million licenses of Windows 8 within a month then it can be deemed to have
done as well as Windows 7, which came as a welcome product after the disastrous
Windows Vista.
According to PCWorld, Microsoft Chief Marketing
Officer for Windows, Tami Reller, called Windows 8 the company’s biggest
project since Windows 95, and said that “Windows 8 is shaping up as one of the
company’s most successful products.”
A report in Reuters said that most of these sales of
40 million licenses came from PC makers whose computers will be shipped
preloaded with the new operating platform. Incidentally many of these PCs may
still be at shops waiting to be sold.
Research firm StatCounter puts the actual number of
Windows 8 users to roughly 15 million or around 1 percent of the 1.5 billion PC
users around the globe
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