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selnor on 27 October 2012
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Slimebeast said:
Argh_College said:
kowenicki said:
Its going to be a success. The people that said this would be a huge flop couldn't have been more wrong. Imagine how well all the Windows 8 tablets combined are going to do in general this holidays and during 2013.

Ballmer said OVER 400Milions Windows8/WP8 Phones will be sold in 1 year... So From now to October 2013.

Windows 8 is another Story since many people just upgrade their Software and dont buy New Pcs.

So Probably 650m W8 and > 400M Windows8/Wp8 devices

lol u misunderstood. What is included in those 400 million? Obviously he included Win 8 operating systems for PCs, so it's going to be like 380 million software packs (Win 8 OS for PC) and perhaps 20 million hardware devices (Windows smartphones and Windows tablets).

A measly 20 million hardware devices powered by a Microsoft system (excluding PCs). At best.

Meanwhile Apple sells 150 million phones and tablets in a year and Android another 500 million.

Keep in mind that total worldwide yearly shipments of smartphones by all vendors is around 700 million and tablets I would think much less, perhaps 100 million.

ROFL.

That measily number is already at 5 million beofre the launch as Surface RT is SOLD OUT. 

So that leaves only 15 million by your count in 364 days across Surface RT/Pro and all its counterparts Nokia, Asus etc.

Also worth noting is that double the amount of companies are building Windows 8 devices than that that support Android. 

I fail to see the logic. 

Android and IOS will not sell nearly half as many devices from now on as Windows 8.