{"id":750824,"date":"2013-05-10T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T03:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=503278"},"modified":"2013-05-10T23:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T03:59:24","slug":"despite-100-million-licenses-sold-windows-8-install-base-estimated-at-59-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750824","title":{"rendered":"Despite 100 million licenses sold, Windows 8 install base estimated at 59 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/10\/windows-8-installation-base-estimate-59-million\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/windows-8-logo-blue-2012.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows 8 Installation Base Estimate\" title=\"Windows 8 Installation Base Estimate\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Although <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> recently touted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/07\/windows-blue-release-date\/\">having sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses this week<\/a>, careful observers noted that selling all those licenses doesn't mean vendors have actually sold 100 million Windows 8 devices over the past half-year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9239047\/Estimates_peg_59M_Windows_8_devices_in_use\"><em>ComputerWorld<\/em><\/a> this week talked with\u00a0Patrick Moorhead, a principal analyst with Moor Insights &amp; Strategy, who estimates that the actual number of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a> devices <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/windows-8-market-share-march-2013-408961\/\">being used out in the wild<\/a> is closer to 59 million, since the most recent data from Net Applications shows that Windows 8 is being used on around 4.2% of all Windows PCs. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/10\/windows-8-installation-base-estimate-59-million\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/efi4A5ONxyc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Microsoft recently touted\u00a0having sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses this week, careful observers noted that selling all those licenses doesn&#8217;t mean vendors have actually sold 100 million Windows 8 devices over the past half-year. ComputerWorld this week talked with\u00a0Patrick Moorhead, a principal analyst with Moor Insights &amp; Strategy, who estimates that the actual number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821,12071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39k4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}