Microsoft sells 40 million Windows 8 licenses

According to tech research firm StatCounter, about 1 percent of the world’s 1.5 billion or so personal computers – making a total of around 15 million – are actually running Windows 8.
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StatCounter's 15million PC estimate seems to be in stark contrast to Soluto's estimates:

Below is Soluto's infograph:

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As you can see, it says 3.12% of all Windows machines are running Win8.

According to my calculations, with Windows being on at least 90% of all PCs in the world (90% of 1.5billion = 1.35billion), 3.12% of 1.35billion gives us 42.12million PCs actually running Windows 8.

So, that 40million seems like the actual figure of PCs running Win8 and not 15million.

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StatCounter only tracks statistics for websites making use of their services. Although they have a lot of websites on their books, they only track less than 3% of traffic to the Internet. So, if according to them, about 1% of users make use of Win 8, this figure may be a lot higher in reality.
 
House said:
StatCounter only tracks statistics for websites making use of their services. Although they have a lot of websites on their books, they only track less than 3% of traffic to the Internet. So, if according to them, about 1% of users make use of Win 8, this figure may be a lot higher in reality.
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That seems to make sense because you can activate your Win8 and then not make use of StatCounter services.
 
If it where not for the cheap upgrade, I doubt they would have many upgrades. But thanks to the $14.99 offer, I've already done two upgrades and a 3rd one is pending.
 
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