Microsoft: 40M Windows 8 licenses 'in line' with early Windows 7 sales

	Preston Gralla: Windows 8 sales are sluggish, not booming, say analysts and Asian PC makers | Microsoft: 40 million Windows 8 licenses sold
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	Microsoft: 40M Windows 8 licenses 'in line' with early Windows 7 sales A Microsoft executive said the company has sold 40 million licenses for Windows 8, essentially matching the first month performance of Windows 7 in late 2009. Analysts put the numbers in context. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud This guide offers recommendations and best practices for assembling and integrating a range of hardware and software components, such as servers, storage, virtualization software, and operating systems. Learn More! In this Issue Preston Gralla: Windows 8 sales are sluggish, not booming, say analysts and Asian PC makers Microsoft: 40 million Windows 8 licenses sold Worldwide server shipments rose in Q3, but revenue fell, Gartner says Preston Gralla: Call the fact checkers! New Yorker cover doesn't know the difference between the Windows 8 Start screen and desktop Annual Windows upgrades demand consumer-business split, say analysts Richi Jennings: Microsoft: Windows 8 is great, your argument is invalid Preston Gralla: Are Windows 8 users cheapskates? Windows Store downloads beat the Mac App Store, but Mac app revenue is five times higher. Preston Gralla: Analyst reports that Black Friday Microsoft Surface sales were dismal Dell XPS 12 review: Does it succeed as both an ultrabook and a tablet? How to enable Hibernate mode in Windows 8 Windows Phone 7.8 coming next year, and users aren't happy WEBCAST: VMware Getting Started with VMware vSphere Hypervisor and VMware Go Join us for a look at how to deploy virtualization using VMware vSphere, the industry's best-of-breed hypervisor. Discover how solutions such as VMware Go make deploying VMware server virtualization technology a snap. This webcast will begin with a discussion of the core concepts of virtualization. Learn More Now! Preston Gralla: Windows 8 sales are sluggish, not booming, say analysts and Asian PC makers Microsoft has been touting its claim of 40 million Windows 8 licenses sold as evidence of a booming launch. But analysts and Asian PC makers beg to disagree, and say sales of the new operating system have been sluggish. Read More Microsoft: 40 million Windows 8 licenses sold Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. Read More Worldwide server shipments rose in Q3, but revenue fell, Gartner says Worldwide server shipments went up in the third quarter of 2012, but revenue from those sales dropped due to economic uncertainty in some parts of the world, research firm Gartner said in a study released on Wednesday. Read More Preston Gralla: Call the fact checkers! New Yorker cover doesn't know the difference between the Windows 8 Start screen and desktop My weekly New Yorker appeared in my mailbox this afternoon, with a giant faux cover in front of the real one, showing what the magazine might look like if it were a Windows 8 app on the Start screen. Clearly, the New Yorker fact checkers were taking a vacation, though, because in big type, the magazine mistakenly calls the Windows 8 Start screen the "desktop." Read More Annual Windows upgrades demand consumer-business split, say analysts Microsoft will speed up the release cadence of Windows, starting in 2013, to issue annual OS upgrades, according to reports on the Web today. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mobiquity Inc. Smartphones and Tablets Propel the Healthcare Revolution Smartphones and tablets are changing how we get and stay healthy. Apps help us stick to a diet and exercise plan, remind us to take our pills and lower costs by reducing the number of trips to the doctor's office. Find out the five ways smartphones are changing the face of healthcare—for the better. Learn more. Richi Jennings: Microsoft: Windows 8 is great, your argument is invalid Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) wants us to know that Windows 8 is a huge success, selling 40 million copies in its first month. That's probably faster than Windows 7! But hang on, just a week ago the sales situation looked dire. What could have changed in seven days? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers scratch their heads (or get a bird to do it for them). Read More Preston Gralla: Are Windows 8 users cheapskates? Windows Store downloads beat the Mac App Store, but Mac app revenue is five times higher. Are Windows 8 users cheapskates? Judging by the first month of downloads in the Windows 8 Store, that might be the case. Even though downloads of the most popular apps in the Windows 8 Store beat downloads in the Mac App Store, Mac App Store revenue dwarfs that of the Windows 8 Store. Read More Preston Gralla: Analyst reports that Black Friday Microsoft Surface sales were dismal If sales of Microsoft's Surface tablet at the most-visited shopping mall in the world are any indicator of overall sales, Microsoft had a dismal Black Friday.  Read More Dell XPS 12 review: Does it succeed as both an ultrabook and a tablet? Dell's new XPS 12 convertible is one of the first Windows 8 computer to work both as an ultrabook and a tablet. But despite a nice design and great display, it may not succeed. Read More How to enable Hibernate mode in Windows 8 Last month I explained how to shut down Windows 8, an option you wouldn't expect to require step-by-step instruction. And yet. Read More Windows Phone 7.8 coming next year, and users aren't happy Microsoft's next OS update for Windows Phone 7 handsets won't be available until sometime in 2013. Read More
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