60 million Windows 8 OS licenses sold

Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 8, has sold 60 million licenses sold to date. This figure includes both upgrades and sales to original equipment manufacturers for new devices.

A fact that was reveal by Windows’ CFO and Marketing Director, Tami Reller, during CES 2013. Windows 8 was introduc in October 2012 with new features in the interface design, among others. The software company took a turn from its previous versions, opting for an interface that would adapt to both traditional computers and touch screens.

Windows 8 seems to be getting off the ground

The new operating system from Rmond has guyana email list 39,863 contact leads seen a significant increase in the number of certifi systems compar to its full and general availability at the end of October. Thus, Windows 8 has manag to register, to date, 60 million licenses.

The innovation that Microsoft has us with this new OS has generat good expectations in the sector and the company has register initial sales success. In fact, in the first weekend they manag to sell 40 million licences, a number that far exce the number obtain by Windows 7 in the same period.

However, after this period it seem that Windows 8 had stagnat and had lower market share data than those collect for Windows Vista, the company’s most criticiz software. This trend has improv thanks to management errors when making decisions: paralysis by analysis the Christmas season and there are already 1,700 systems certifi for Windows 8 and Windows RT.

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