40 million Windows 8 licenses sold, betters first-month sales of 7 Add to ...

Microsoft Corp has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses in the month since the launch, according to one of the new co-heads of the Windows unit, setting a faster pace than Windows 7 three years ago.
The sales number represents a solid but unspectacular start for the touch-friendly operating system designed to combat Apple Inc.’s and Google Inc.’s domination of mobile computing, which has shunted aside PCs in favour of iPads and smartphones.