{"id":4910,"date":"2014-02-28T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2014-02-28T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T15:00:10","slug":"windows-8-may-be-selling-but-different-figures-define-its-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2014\/02\/28\/windows-8-may-be-selling-but-different-figures-define-its-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 may be selling, but different figures define its use"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft last week said that it had sold 200 million licenses of Windows 8 since the operating system launched more than 15 months ago. But how many copies are actually being used?<\/p>\n

An analysis of available data showed that while not all 200 million licenses are powering systems that did the most basic of PC tasks\u2014access the Internet\u2014the number of Windows 8 devices in operation was much closer to Microsoft\u2019s claimed mark than nine months ago.<\/p>\n

Last May, after analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy questioned Microsoft\u2019s then-number of 100 million licenses sold, Computerworld calculated that Windows 8 was actually being used by just 59 million devices.<\/p>\n

How does the 200-million claim\u2014voiced last week by Tami Reller, Microsoft\u2019s marketing chief, at a Goldman Sachs-sponsored technology conference\u2014stack up?<\/p>\n

Microsoft counts a license as sold when it provides a customer an upgrade or one of its OEM partners a copy for a new PC, tablet, or two-in-one device, like Microsoft\u2019s own Surface Pro 2. Licenses to hardware vendors make up the bulk of what Microsoft sells. According to the company, the numbers it regularly cites for Windows 8 licenses exclude those sold to enterprises as part of volume licensing agreements.<\/p>\n

But because Microsoft considers a license sold\u2014and accounts for it on the books that way\u2014as soon as a Windows-powered device comes off the factory line, it\u2019s added to the \u201csold\u201d column even though a customer hasn\u2019t purchased the machine. Licenses installed on OEMs\u2019 inventory, whatever is in retail or a warehouse, or for that matter, in transit from factory to destination, count as sold.<\/p>\n

Nine months ago, Moorhead argued that a more accurate representation of Windows 8\u2019s success\u2014or failure\u2014was to count differently. \u201cHow many Windows 8 PCs have sold and are being used?\u201d Moorhead asked then.<\/p>\n

If he asked that same question today, what would be the answer?<\/p>\n

via Windows 8 may be selling, but different figures define its use | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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