Microsoft Says It Has Sold 40 Million Windows 8 Licenses To Date

According to Microsoft they sold 40 million windows 8 lisence so far.

This is the first update the company has given since it announced that it had sold 4 million upgrades over the first weekend after Windows 8 went on sale earlier this month. according to microsoft:

[quote align=”left” w=”300″ right=”15″]“Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms of upgrades.”[/quote]

Microsoft had not released any sales figures for Windows 8 other than saying the company sold 4 million upgrade licenses of the operating system to those with previous versions of Windows during the first three days it was available. Microsoft launched Windows 8 commercially on October 26.
A Microsoft spokesperson said the 40 million licenses sold accounts for all sales, including those to OEMs and other partners. It’s fair to assume then that quite a few of these licenses haven’t actually found their way to users yet.

[succsess_box]Microsoft also used today’s announcement to highlight that “there were more apps in the Windows Store at launch than any other app store at their launch and since then, the number of apps in the Windows Store has doubled.” [/succsess_box]