nanarchy on 29 November 2012
mothman said:
Unfortunately when Microsoft says 40 million licenses sold they include all the OEM licenses that hardware vendors had to buy to build Windows 8 PCs, Laptops and surface tablets. They also include licenses they gave away at various conferences and gatherings. It's called shelfware. i.e. the hardware is still sitting on a shelf somewhere. They've been doing that since the dawn of time. I should know, I've been watching them for 27 years. :) |
That is the exact same situation as win 7, vista, XP and every other version so there is nothing unfortunate or bad about the numbers, it is still the fastest selling OS ever, if you think there are 40 million PC's sitting on shelves then you really don't know.
