The amount of Windows 8 is only half of the number purchased
ComputerWorld quoted Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at research firm Moor Insights & Strategy, saying that although Microsoft recently sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses , in fact, only nearly 59 million devices are running the operating system. this act.
Mr. Moorhead provided the above information based on statistics from Net Applications, showing that Windows 8 is used on about 4.2% of all Windows computers.
Meanwhile, the now heavily disparaged platform is that Vista is still being used on more than 70 million PCs.
Moor Insights & Strategy analysts said: ' Since the number of Windows 8-installed computers is not really positive, Microsoft is so quiet. If not, they would have boasted. '
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Update 25 May 2019
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