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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">windows 8 sales</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;this article is about the&nbsp;<strong>SALES STATUS</strong>&nbsp;of the new microsoft's windows operating system.</li> <li><strong>] 11/30 </strong>microsoft is reporting <span style="text-decoration: underline;">windows 8 licence sales after 1 month at 40 million units</span>, while <span style="text-decoration: underline;">PC shipments are down &gt; 20%</span>&nbsp;.</li> <ol> <li>] sounds like a horrible month, a tragedy, they probably wont even open the doors for business on monday</li> </ol> <li>Others are reporting that licence sales doesnt equal people using windows 8, it is just the number of licences that msft has sold to OEMs for PC's that will possibly be using the operating system some time down the road.</li> <li>Microsoft is not currently releasing any further data on windows 8 adoption / actual usage.</li> <ol> <li>which kind of leads us to believe that the naysayers calling out the 40m as suspect.</li> </ol> <li>So of course the answer would lie in internet usage. the number of pc's using windows 8 measured by various firms counting/measuring global internet traffic.</li> <li>StatsCounter is reporting that user uptake(aka actual usage) of&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">windows 8 is below that of window 7</span> levels based upon internet usage measured during the same amount&nbsp;of time after the os was released.</li> <li>Windows 8 had a worldwide Internet usage share of 1.31%, compared to 4.93% achieved by Windows 7 one month after its launch in 2009. Within the U.S., that number was slightly higher: 2.12%, versus 6.29% for the same period in 2009</li> <li>Some at ms&nbsp;are <a href="http://blogs.windows.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/03/18/understanding-browser-usage-share-data.aspx%20" target="_blank">taking issue</a> with&nbsp;the StatCounter&nbsp;numbers as apparently they&nbsp;don't&nbsp;factor in places like&nbsp;China and Japan, while of course <a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/press/open-letter-ms" target="_blank">they say</a>, that they do.&nbsp;</li> <ol> <li>REF <a href="http://readwrite.com/2012/11/30/another-gloomy-report-adds-to-windows-8s-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week#feed=/tag/microsoft">http://readwrite.com/2012/11/30/another-gloomy-report-adds-to-windows-8s-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week#feed=/tag/microsoft</a></li> </ol> <li>msft's numbers 'source' netmarketshare doesnt report numbers until november,&nbsp;</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>] market for</li> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol></ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;to use [what]</li> </ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>] to use [what]</li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2> <ol> <li>] what in action</li> </ol> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>] getting started with [what] step-by-step</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>sales of windows-8 - will you buy it? some unofficial survey's on "consumer likelyhood" of purchasing windows 8 </strong></li> <ol> <li><a href="http://readwrite.com/2012/10/29/readwrite-survey-consumers-like-windows-8-surface-but-prefer-windows-7">http://readwrite.com/2012/10/29/readwrite-survey-consumers-like-windows-8-surface-but-prefer-windows-7</a><strong> </strong></li> <li>associated press article - <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/10/29/tec-microsoft-poll.html">http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/10/29/tec-microsoft-poll.html</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>wall street journal poll - indicating 47% would buy, 16 maybe and 37 % would not&nbsp;</li> </ol> <li><strong>sales of windows-8 - actual </strong></li> <ol> <li>] 2012-10-31 techcrunch - <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/30/steve-ballmer-microsoft-sold-4-million-windows-8-upgrades-since-launch-interest-in-windows-8-and-surface-has-been-stunning/#comment-box" target="_blank">microsofts(Balmer) reporting 4 millions copies sold 5 days after launch</a></li> <li>] 2012-11-28 yahoo&nbsp;<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-sold-40-million-windows-8-licenses-first-205453676--finance.html" target="_blank">Microsoft sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses in month: executive</a>&nbsp;</li> </ol> <li><strong>usage-of-windows </strong>&nbsp;</li> <ol> <li>] <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57556436-75/windows-8-slower-out-of-gate-than-windows-7-says-report/" target="_blank">windows 8 user uptake in the first 30 days</a> reported by StatsCounter&nbsp;( based upon internet usage )</li> <li>] windows 8 user uptake in the first 30 days reported by NetApplications based upon internet usage</li> </ol> <li><strong>sales of personal computers</strong></li> <ol> <li>] are reported to be <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33642_7-57556199-292/windows-8-launches..-and-pc-sales-drop-21-percent-hmm/" target="_blank">down by 20%</a> for the period of</li> </ol> <li>]<strong> sales (uptake)</strong>&nbsp;</li> <ol> <li>&nbsp; - <a href="http://readwrite.com/2012/11/30/another-gloomy-report-adds-to-windows-8s-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week#feed=/tag/microsoft">http://readwrite.com/2012/11/30/another-gloomy-report-adds-to-windows-8s-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week#feed=/tag/microsoft</a><br />&nbsp;</li> </ol></ol>