Microsoft: Has sold more than 200 million Win8 licenses

Computer store news: Microsoft executive vice president Tami · Tami Reller announced on Thursday that the company has sold more than 200 million Windows8 licenses .

Some media have already verified this data with Microsoft, and Microsoft has confirmed the above data. At the same time, Microsoft further said that the above data does not include the number of Windows 8 licenses sold to enterprises, but it counts the number of upgrades of Windows 8 installed on ordinary PCs.

In recent months, Microsoft has been ignoring the specific sales of Windows 8, and the tone is extremely strict. Since the disclosure of more than 100 million Windows 8 licenses in May 2013, Microsoft has not disclosed the expected sales volume and other data related to Windows 8. Windows 8.x (including Windows 8 and Windows 8.1) is highly motivated in the PC market, which has also become an important reason for driving higher sales.

On May 7, 2013, Microsoft announced that the sales of Win8 licenses exceeded 100 million. Therefore, in the 282 days since then, Microsoft has sold more than 100 million Windows 8 licenses. On average, Microsoft has sold more than 350,000 Windows 8 licenses per day during this period. As early as January 2013, Microsoft announced that Windows 8 licenses were 60 million copies.

However, in recent times, the overall market share of Windows 8.x has not changed much as users began to abandon Windows 8 and switch to Win 8.1. With the upcoming release of Windows 8.1 Update 1, Microsoft may see some users will soon abandon the old version of Windows 8, and use the latest Windows 8.1 Update 1 system, but Microsoft may also take some measures to prevent the traditional operating system. User's shunt.

Although 200 million is a strong number, in fact, the average daily sales of Windows 8 in the latest period of time is lower than the previous results. Between November 27, 2012 and January 8, 2013, Microsoft Windows 8 licenses sold 20 million copies, with an average daily sales of more than 450,000 copies, but this was not provided at the time of the Windows 8 upgrade. What happened in the case.