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mothman on 29 November 2012
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nanarchy said:
mothman said:
MaulerX said:
Lol. Lets replace this threads "rumor" with fact: Windows 8 is selling better than Windows 7 with over 40 Million licenses sold in one month.

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.

Nobody said there are 40 million Windows 8 PCs sitting on shelves. Dell, HP, Acer, Gateway etc. have all purchased licenses for Windows 8, millions of which haven't even been used yet but MS in this case is counting it as a sale. It may look like more than Windows 7 but I guarantee that more of the licenses for Windows 7 were actually in use by human beings after the first month.

I know I upgraded my machine from Vista to Windows 7 as soon as it was available as did millions of people who had to suffer through the POS that was Vista. There's absolutely no reason for anyone running a PC or Laptop that doesn't have a touch screen to go anywhere near Windows 8. I'm only running it on one of my machines because it was cheaper to buy than a physical copy of Windows 7

They realize Windows 8 is not doing well and have admitted it. The OEMs and vendors are saying that it's not selling well too. She was told to put a spin on it so that it would look like it is doing better than it is for the frikkin' shareholders. They didn't have to do that with Windows 7 because the OS was actually selling.

A sale should indicate a product in use, but in this case it indicates permission to use a product and nothing else. That's why she says 40 million licenses not 40 million copies of Windows 8. So no it's not the OS that has sold at all.

Just Google Windows 8 sales and with a bit of actual reading you'll discover that Tami Reller's 40 million licenses comment means absolutely nothing. Strictly a dance for people with money invested in M$ so that they won't start panic selling.

... and if you don't understand that then it's YOU that really doesn't know.