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Argh_College on 30 October 2012

Not counting Pc Sales i think.

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Source : http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=496288&page=74



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comawhite94 on 30 October 2012

How will this compare to OS X sales this holiday? And will MS be able to keep this numbers up? Not trying to be a pessimist, but I think it's too early to say weather Windows 8 will be successful or not.



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Argh_College on 31 October 2012
comawhite94 said:
How will this compare to OS X sales this holiday? And will MS be able to keep this numbers up? Not trying to be a pessimist, but I think it's too early to say weather Windows 8 will be successful or not.

Usually Windows sells way more.



Nsanity on 31 October 2012

Are these numbers good?



nanarchy on 31 October 2012
comawhite94 said:
How will this compare to OS X sales this holiday? And will MS be able to keep this numbers up? Not trying to be a pessimist, but I think it's too early to say weather Windows 8 will be successful or not.


It is  orders of magnitude greater than OSX will achieve or has achieved, OSX lion for instance sold approximately 26 million in the previous FY (about 10 months of sales).



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sales2099 on 31 October 2012

Whooo! Corporations helping corporations :)



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ebw on 31 October 2012
nanarchy said:
comawhite94 said:
How will this compare to OS X sales this holiday? And will MS be able to keep this numbers up? Not trying to be a pessimist, but I think it's too early to say weather Windows 8 will be successful or not.


It is  orders of magnitude greater than OSX will achieve or has achieved, OSX lion for instance sold approximately 26 million in the previous FY (about 10 months of sales).


Sure, it will obviously outsell OS X in the long run, but your comparison is very much skewed due to higher volume at launch.  OS X Mountain Lion sold 3 million upgrades in the first 4 days to a minuscule fraction of the userbase of Windows.  Windows 8 has very little to brag about saleswise at this early point in time.



joesampson on 31 October 2012

You're using a forum poster as a source?



Jazz2K on 31 October 2012

Isn't like 85% of computer market owned by Windows? Why compare it to OSX? Windows sales should be compared to other Windows sales... how does it fare agains't Win 7 and XP?



nanarchy on 01 November 2012
ebw said:
nanarchy said:
comawhite94 said:
How will this compare to OS X sales this holiday? And will MS be able to keep this numbers up? Not trying to be a pessimist, but I think it's too early to say weather Windows 8 will be successful or not.


It is  orders of magnitude greater than OSX will achieve or has achieved, OSX lion for instance sold approximately 26 million in the previous FY (about 10 months of sales).


Sure, it will obviously outsell OS X in the long run, but your comparison is very much skewed due to higher volume at launch.  OS X Mountain Lion sold 3 million upgrades in the first 4 days to a minuscule fraction of the userbase of Windows.  Windows 8 has very little to brag about saleswise at this early point in time.

yes and then 3 months to reach 6 million. Apple has always had a very loyal core base . but after that sales rapidly fall off. He asked how it compares and I answered, it really doesn't compare.