Microsoft (MSFT): 'Windows 8 is Selling Just Fine, Thanks'
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows 8 has been met with mixed reviews, but sales numbers don't lie.
According to Microsoft's Chief Marketing Officer Tami Reller, about 100 million Windows 8 licenses have been sold since launch six months ago. The number is up from 60 million reported last January.
TheNextWeb points out today that sales are in-line with Microsoft's decidedly more-popular operating system, Windows 7. Launched in October 2009, Windows 7 sold 100 million licenses by April 2010. That's 193 days for Windows 8 versus 160 days for Windows 7. If Microsoft revealed the numbers with its quarterly report, it would have been somewhere around 153 days.
Still, 100 million is a strong number and reinforces that Microsoft will sell Windows regardless of knee-jerk reactions from the media.
Other recent data from Net Applications points to Windows 8 occupying just 3.8 percent of the global OS market in April 2013, versus 44.7 percent for Windows 7.
Microsoft is lower in early trading after gaining 0.8 percent Monday.
According to Microsoft's Chief Marketing Officer Tami Reller, about 100 million Windows 8 licenses have been sold since launch six months ago. The number is up from 60 million reported last January.
TheNextWeb points out today that sales are in-line with Microsoft's decidedly more-popular operating system, Windows 7. Launched in October 2009, Windows 7 sold 100 million licenses by April 2010. That's 193 days for Windows 8 versus 160 days for Windows 7. If Microsoft revealed the numbers with its quarterly report, it would have been somewhere around 153 days.
Still, 100 million is a strong number and reinforces that Microsoft will sell Windows regardless of knee-jerk reactions from the media.
Other recent data from Net Applications points to Windows 8 occupying just 3.8 percent of the global OS market in April 2013, versus 44.7 percent for Windows 7.
Microsoft is lower in early trading after gaining 0.8 percent Monday.
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