nsane.forums Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Windows 8 will be used by up to 500 million people by the end of 2013, according to a new prediction by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. He also said that Skype for Windows 8 is in development. Earlier today, we reported that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that 350 million devices with Windows 7 would be sold in 2012. Now a new report from AFP claims that Ballmer has made yet another prediction, this time on the sales of Windows 8. In a speech to the Seoul Digital Forum in South Korea today, Ballmer said that up to 500 million users will be using a Windows 8 device by the end of 2013. Microsoft is expected to launch Windows 8 officially sometime before the end of 2012. Ballmer added, "It's really, in some senses, a dawning of the rebirth of MS Windows... It's certainly the most important piece of work we've done." Ballmer also said that Microsoft will "soon" launch a version of Skype for Windows 8. That might indicate that Skype could be part of the Release Preview version of Windows 8, which is scheduled to launch sometime in the first week of June. Ballmer also spoke about the cloud computing industry today, predicting that in a few years there will only be a few companies that will dominate that industry. He stated, "The number of core (cloud) platforms, around which software developers will do their innovation, is not ever-broadening. It's really a quite smaller and focused number -- Windows, various forms of Linux, the Apple ecosystem." View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted May 22, 2012 Administrator Share Posted May 22, 2012 Ballmer needs to get his numbers checked (pun intended :P ).No Aero Glass, fugly Metro. Even when we consider mobile devices in those numbers, it's being waaaay too much optimistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyko666 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Yeah.. I'm not gonna install W8 Final on my system, only gonna try it out in VM.. but it looks so damn cheap! <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mara- Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 That must be some crazy people.Cheers ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tezza Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyko666 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 :lol: @ tezza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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