The report is in: Microsoft announced today that the company just passed the 100 million mark in Windows 8 licenses sold. The figure reflects the number of licenses sold in the first 6 months of the operating system since its release in October 2012. And the software giant is also finally talking about Windows 8.1 (also known as Windows Blue).
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If we turn the clock back to April 2010, the numbers we see today match how Windows 7 performed back then during the same period, meaning Microsoft's operating system isn't doing too badly. And the numbers only include OEM licenses (pre-installs and upgrades) and retail licenses (boxed licenses), not sales of value licenses.
In a new interview with Windows CFO Tami Reller, Senior Marketing Communications Manager Brandon LeBlanc acknowledged that the situation with touch-enabled devices (Windows 8 and Windows RT) is not really good and that they expect improvements in July, during the back-to-school sales season.
Until now, the company has been tight-lipped about numbers (all we knew was that Microsoft sold 40 million copies of Windows 8 in the first month) and the next Windows update, codenamed "Windows Blue," also known as "Windows 8.1." But now, Microsoft seems to finally be breaking its silence and officially declaring that Blue is an update that will arrive "later this year," just in time for the 2013 holidays, when we'll also see the new smaller (7- to 9-inch) form factor devices running Windows 8. And the company will soon announce pricing, packaging, and other details.
