SOLID NUMBERS: Microsoft Corp has sold 40 million Windows 8 licences in the month since the launch, according to one of the new co-heads of the Windows unit, setting a faster pace than Windows 7 three years ago. — Reuters
SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp has sold 40 million Windows 8 licences in the month since the launch, according to one of the new co-heads of the Windows unit, setting a faster pace than Windows 7 three years ago.
The sales number represents a solid but unspectacular start for the touch-friendly operating system designed to combat Apple Inc’s and Google Inc’s domination of mobile computing, which has shunted aside PCs in favour of iPads and smartphones.
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