Last updated on September 8th, 2018
Tami Reller, one of the two newly minted heads of Microsoft’s Windows group, said the company has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses to date. As Microsoft’s announcement explains, that 60 million figure “represents the cumulative sales of Windows 8 including both upgrades and sales to OEMs for new devices.” In other words, some of those Windows licenses are upgrades that are running on real-world machines, right now, but a great many of them aren’t. In fact, the machines that many of those copies of Windows 8 will eventually run on haven’t even been built yet.