RE: This is silly. Win8 sales are upwards of 40 million
The problem with that 40 million sales number is that it’s not very transparent.
Microsoft hasn’t explained how it’s counting licenses. Without that information, it’s a little hard to tell what that 40 million figure really means.
Many of those licenses could have been obtained before Windows 8 was even launched. A lot of companies bought the rights to Windows 8 before it was available and may now be in the license count even though they haven’t deployed Windows 8.
According to Rob Helm, managing vice president for research at Directions On Microsoft in Kirkland, Wash, a survey his company took of its customers, which are mostly large businesses, indicated adoption of Windows 8 would be slow. It showed that only 13 percent of the firms had plans for a company-wide deployment of new operating system in 2013.
Those survey findings jibe with observations made Wednesday by the CFO of Asus David Chang and Nomura security analyst Richard Sherlund, a widely respected Microsoft watcher.
Chang told the Wall Street Journal that the demand for Windows 8 is not that good right now.
In the long run, all this early speculation about Windows 8 adoption may be producing more heat than light on the subject. It’s just too hard to tell from one month’s experience. everybody’s trying to spot a trend based on one data point. It’s really too soon to tell. We’re all obsessed with instant analysis.
The problem with that 40 million sales number is that it’s not very transparent.
Microsoft hasn’t explained how it’s counting licenses. Without that information, it’s a little hard to tell what that 40 million figure really means.
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I’m willing to bet that at least 10M of that is corporate PC’s that came with Win8 and had it replaced immediately with XP or Win7 for application compatability.