Finally, the radio silence of Microsoft over the sales of windows 8 licenses is over and the company has announced that it has sold over 100 million windows 8 licenses since 60 million license sales till January this year. The company has been quite careful before disclosing the sales of its product license during the recent quarter.
The figures are quite similar to windows 7 sales which reached 100 million license sales in April, 2010. The major challenge for Microsoft at this stage relies on touch based windows machines as windows 8 encourages usage on these devices. Although these devices are yet to make an impact in consumer market yet it could prove to be decisive for windows 8 success in near future depending on the sales on touch based windows devices.
Microsoft windows CFO Tami Reller mentioned that the company is not satisfied with the overall level of sales in touch based device market which was the prime focus of Windows 8 pre-launch. Microsoft expects some improvement in sales during the summer season due to increasing atom based tablet market. Microsoft is also planning to launch its new version of windows 8 i.e. windows 8.1 with improvements for non touch laptop and desktop users.