Microsoft claims 200M Windows 8 licenses sold, but how many are in use?

[anuseems]

Microsoft last week said that it had sold 200 million licenses of Windows 8 since the operating system launched more than 15 months ago. But how many copies are actually being used?

From Computerworld:

An analysis of available data showed that while not all 200 million licenses are powering systems that did the most basic of PC tasks -- access the Internet -- the number of Windows 8 devices in operation was much closer to Microsoft's claimed mark than nine months ago.

Last May, after analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy questioned Microsoft's then-number of 100 million licenses sold, Computerworld calculated that Windows 8 was actually being used by just 59 million devices.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246417/Microsoft_claims_200M_Windows_8_licenses_sold_but_how_many_are_in_use_

Edited February 20, 2014 by anuseems

[truemate]

our november_ra1n done more then that :D

[jackieo]

is that oem licenses residing on laptops which are sitting idle on store shelves?? or store bought install cds?

[calguyhunk]

our november_ra1n done more then that :D

LMFAO! So true :thumbsup:

is that oem licenses residing on laptops which are sitting idle on store shelves?? or store bought install cds?

All included. Retail sales plus OEM licenses. Also, that's for 8 and 8.1 combined. :yes:

Edited February 21, 2014 by calguyhunk

[demoneye]

for sure some millions are not in use this way or another....anyhow , win 8 and above is the future if we like it or not .

[hamslammer]

I'm a sucker who bought a Win 8 license, but it was uninstalled in favor of Win 7 in fairly short time.

[Rony]

Don't know. Still using windows 7 after I had many problems with 8.1