{"id":63546,"date":"2012-10-31T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T05:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=63546"},"modified":"2012-10-31T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T05:53:13","slug":"windows-8-4-million-upgrades-since-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/63546-windows-8-4-million-upgrades-since-launch.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8: 4 million upgrades since launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday the company has sold 4 million upgrades to Windows 8, signaling a strong start for its new operating system which launched on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ballmer, speaking at a meeting for software developers at Microsoft&#8217;s headquarters near Seattle, said hundreds of millions of Windows systems would be sold over the next year, and the company was seeing strong interest from business users.<\/p>\n<p>Ballmer already said on Monday that Windows 8 was outselling the previous version, Windows 7, at the same stage after launch three years ago.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Windows Phone 8 launched, new features unveiled\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/63400-windows-phone-8-launched-new-features-unveiled.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows Phone 8 launched, new features unveiled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nokia vs HTC vs Samsung: Windows Phone 8 spec sheet showdown\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/60295-nokia-vs-htc-vs-samsung-windows-phone-8-spec-sheet-showdown.html\"><strong>Nokia vs HTC vs Samsung: Windows Phone 8 spec sheet showdown<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"HTC Windows Phone 8 phones in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/60251-htc-windows-phone-8-phones-in-sa.html\"><strong>HTC Windows Phone 8 phones in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Chief Exec, has said that sales for Windows 8 upgrades has hit the 4 million mark since launch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":63116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,123,127,451],"class_list":["post-63546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-steve-ballmer","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63560,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63546\/revisions\/63560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}