Windows 8 Milestones: 100 Million Licenses Sold, 60,000 Apps
The PC market is continuing to drive off a cliff, but at least now more passengers are running Windows 8. Microsoft says it's sold 100 million licenses for Windows 8 so far, up from 60 million in January. At the same time, the Windows Store has hit 60,000 apps.
As for how many of those licenses represent PCs that are actually being used, it's hard to say. The 100 million includes upgrades as well as PC sales. However, the vast majority of the 40 million licenses sold since January are new PCs, says Tami Reller, Microsoft's vice president of Windows marketing.
"Upgrade season was pretty much over in January once all the offers expired," Reller told Mashable. "So pretty much all of the growth from 60 to 100 [million] is new PCs."
However, those are PCs shipped, not necessarily sold, so many of them could still be in warehouses or store shelves. Windows 8, however, for the first time lets Microsoft directly track activations online, and Reller says those numbers have seen "steady" growth, and that the overall rate is similar to past Windows releases.
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