dallas on 05 December 2012
| Scoobes said: Windows 8 sales reports seem all over the place. Microsoft say they've sold 40 million licenses, then I've read reports saying only 15 million of those have been activated. NPD seem to suggest the early sales have been relatively slow (https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/windows-8-gets-off-to-a-slow-start-according-to-the-npd-group/). Then you get articles like these which are simply damning: http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/30/windows-8-hard-sales-numbers-are-finally-out/ "How bad is it? Is down 21% from last year bad enough? Windows 8 making up a mere 58% of sales vs Windows 7 in the same period after release has a good explanation, channel inventory, but even that isn’t exactly comforting. Luckily for Redmond, tablet sales are going to power Windows 8 right back to the top of the sales chart blowing past iPads, right? According to NPD, they were less than 1% of sales. Ouch." http://semiaccurate.com/2012/12/03/sales-down-microsoft-raises-prices-radically/ "Microsoft is going to make up for the Windows 8 sales shortfall in a brilliant move, milking the trapped. In a shock to no one, they are raising prices on their enterprise customers to cover consumer revenue potholes." |
It is all irrelevant or false according to disolitude,koweniki, etc
