Microsoft has managed to sell more than 200 million Windows 8 licenses

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Back in May, Microsoft announced over 100 million sales of Windows 8, but how much progress has the software made now that we’re in 2014? Today the company reported shipment of more than 200 million Windows 8 licenses. As usual, Microsoft didn’t specify whether or not that figure includes Windows RT licenses as well.

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It’s been a while since Microsoft execs shared an official count of licenses of Windows 8 sold. Last time we got a tally was in May 2013, when the Softies said the company had sold more than 100 million licenses. On February 13, however, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of Marketing Tami Reller, casually dropped an updated figure of 200 million Windows 8 licenses sold. Reller made that remark during an appearance at the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference. (I listened to a live Webcast.) Microsoft’s silence since last May about Windows 8’s sales rate has been taken by many as proof that the company isn’t selling Windows 8 as quickly as it had hoped and expected.

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