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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by nsns on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @04:29PM (#4839181)
Which might simply mean that this is the approximate amount of non-Apple laptops (and desktops?) sold since Win8's launch, because most of them are now sold only with Win8 licenses [0]. Hardly a mark of success, but of MS's (doomed?) pervasiveness.

[0] e.g., http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPo...

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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by contextfree on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @04:44PM (#4839290)
Yes. This, along with everything else that happens in the world anywhere ever, is clearly a sign that Microsoft is doomed.
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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by sliverstorm on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @04:57PM (#4839363)
What's that, Microsoft announced record profits? Uh-oh, that's a sign they've hit "peak-desktop"- the desktop market will only decline from here. Microsoft is doomed!
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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by whatshisface on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @05:17PM (#4839487)
Everyone is doomed, just at different times. :)
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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by contextfree on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @05:25PM (#4839550)
"Memento mori"! I agree, "market thermodynamics" dictate eventually they will meet their doom, and at that time the perpetual doomsters will find themselves vindicated, like a stopped clock is vindicated twice a day. :)
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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by brudgers on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @04:31PM (#4839194)
"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."

That's 10% of the total in the first three days to existing users.

Including myself.

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Re:Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date by dkhenry on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @05:22PM (#4839533)
If a month has 30 days then that's also 10% of the time period, or another way of saying it is that sales remained constant over that initial time frame.
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