Microsoft reports that it has sold over 200 million licensed copies of the Windows 8 operating system by this time. Although the figure may seem impressive, this figure is quite modest. Representatives of the company say that only six months after the start of sales, the company managed to realize 100 million copies of Windows 8.
"We have overcome the 200 million license mark of Windows 8. These are very good numbers," said Tami Reller, speaking at the Goldman Sachs technology conference.
Sales of the Windows 8 operating system are still growing noticeably slower than sales of Windows 7. At one time, the company needed just one year to sell more than 240 million copies of Windows 7, and in turn, it took several years to sell 200 million Windows 8.
The reasons for this situation, according to analysts, is the drop in PC market sales, as well as Microsoft tablets, which turned out to be far less successful than the company had hoped.
As for the Windows 8.1 update (Update 1), here Microsoft is not yet ready to give any comments. Reller only reported that the company is now focused on reducing the amount of memory used by the operating system of the drives and polishing the user interface for users of mice and keyboards. The very same update for Windows 8.1 should be available for free in April of this year.
In general, it will be interesting to follow the situation and affairs with Windows 8 over the next 12 months. According to rumors, the company is already working on a new operating system Windows 9, which will be presented in April 2015.
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