Win8 users worldwide 88.5 million Win8.1 is placed high hopes

Author: Zhang

The latest data from market research firm Net Applications also show Win8 system until July of this year, the world has 5.40 percent of PC users are using the system. A rough estimate of 88.5 million PC users worldwide is using Windows 8 systems. Win8.1 will be officially launched later this year, along with a new batch of PC hardware that has gained experience from Win8. This may be an opportunity that Microsoft and the entire PC industry have been looking for. The end result may be that Windows 8.1 in the same period of next year may have a higher PC market share than Windows 8.
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The page access data collected from the monitoring website indicates that the Windows 8 user share is actually higher than the Net Applications data in July, reaching 6.61. %. In addition, StatCounter's system statistics also include the percentage of iOS and Android users, which is not available in Net Applications. So far, Microsoft announced in May that they have sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses. However, the 100 million system licenses are only sold to OEMs, and it does not mean that these licenses are all installed and activated on the PC.

Although Microsoft may have sold more than 100 million Windows 8 licenses, the actual users of Windows 8 may be as high as 88.5 million in the “best case”, but the final fact is that Windows 8 After selling for more than 9 months, it still didn't sell as much as Windows 7.