| sales2099 said: Even the "failures" sell amazing. |
Of course they do. You expect the OEMs to buy Ubuntu? Monopolies don't die in a day.
So ignoring the 40 million for the first four weeks to get rid of early adopter outliers, we see 20 million for the next six weeks works out to a rate of 3.3 million per week for Windows 8
Windows 7 is said to have sold 90M licenses 18 weeks after release for a rate of 5 million per week. Alas, I can't control for the launch surge here. But looking at longer-term Win7 shipments, we see 525M copies in 116 weeks, or 4.5 million per week as of Jan 19, 2012
Vista apparently sold at a rate of around 2.5 million per week:
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-windows-vista-sales-rapid-at-140m-copies
It's early days yet, but right now, I'd say Win8 is selling faster than Vista, slower than 7.
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