Microsoft moves another 20 million Windows 8 licenses over holiday season, 100 million total app downloads Microsoft moves another 20 million Windows 8 licenses over holiday season, 100 million total

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Wander_ on 10 January 2013

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dallas on 10 January 2013

kowenicki said:

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sales2099 said:
People can say they don't like Win 8, but you can't say it isn't making a lot of money.

It's half the price per license, and it didn't increase PC sales. So yes you can say that.

100m app downloads includes free apps, the number is worthless without the breakdown into paid apps or revenue figures.

Yes. This is all bad news.

Discounts + Christmas shopping + mobile now being counted as windows 8 ( even though msft probably gets half of its usual licensing fee bc the product is cheaper) = good sales

but, none of these are able to be a long term fix, keep that in mind.

yeah, you keep sayin...

like you keep saying that chrome os will be a success. hows that working out for you?

Chrome? Not that well at all.

Android however, is taking marketshare from Microsoft in the context of the evolution of phone sales as 10 years ago, Windows was the dominant phone OS, and now its android. Tablets are frequently a substitute for desktops and more and more are android now.

So, a significant portion of the OS market for MS has been lost, and that's probably why MS's Office365 has been a bust as well. So all in all, the marketshare for office software as well as OS isn't where it was 10 years ago, thanks to Google. Meanwhile, google is about 8% bigger than msft in terms of market cap. Msft has lost its size advantage, which has always been a big help for them.

Office365 is a bust? No.... It isn't. You don't know what you are taking about.

Google's Enterprise product sells twice as many units as Office 365, and that is a valid comparison since both are the cloud version of their brands office software.