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Survey: Only 9% of US residents plan to upgrade to a new Windows 8 PC

A new survey has been conducted which suggests that only 9% residents of United States plan to upgrade to Windows 8 PC which is not a good news for Microsoft and its new OS. The survey also shows a...

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Windows 8 usage in US up from 1% to 2% in the last week during Black Friday

Microsoft, four days ago announced that 40-million copies of Windows 8 have been sold in just a month’s time but, the overall market share of Windows 8 was not that impressive. Online analysis...

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Windows 8 claims just 1.72% of total PC market with Windows 7 still on top

Windows 8 has been in the market for 2 months now but, the software giant’s new OS hasn’t been able to leave a big mark on the overall PC market share. According to the latest statistics of December,...

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Microsoft has sold 60-million Windows 8 copies during first two months

Microsoft in November announced that the company had sold 40-million copies of Windows 8 in the very first month of the launch since October 26. Now, the Redmond giant has announced that the company...

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Windows 8 is half way in quarterly sales as compared to Vista and Windows 7

Windows 8 which was launched for public on October 26 helped boost the Microsoft’s Windows Divisions profit to $5.8 billion for the last quarter of 2012 which is 24% more than the previous quarter....

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Store for Windows 8/RT has 40,839 apps available globally with 27,257 in US

Windows Store for Windows 8/RT has been on a marathon of getting hundreds of new apps on daily basis but, then, after the New Year, app inventory in Store has decreased. Till date, there are just...

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Windows 8 market share is more than that of Android and iOS with Windows 7 ahead

Windows 8 has been in the market for around 5 months but, now, the latest OS by Microsoft has proved to be very popular. The latest stats shows that Windows 8 has more market share than Android and iOS...

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100-million copies of Windows 8 have been sold till date, says Microsoft

Last time we heard about the sales of latest OS by Microsoft, Windows 8 was sold 60-million times in January but, now, the latest statistics by Microsoft have been revealed mentioning that 100-million...

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Windows Store for Windows 8/RT reaches 80,000 global apps milestone

Windows Store the primary and probably the only source of app for Windows 8 and Windows RT has been on a marathon of getting hundreds and thousands of apps on daily basis since the launch of Windows 8...

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Windows 8 and 8.1 now hold 9.3% of global market share with Vista behind

Windows 8 and its update, Windows 8.1 are now more popular than Vista in global market share. New statistics shows that Windows 8 and 8.1 have surpassed the market share of Vista whereas, the Windows 7...

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Books & Reference Category has Maximum Number of Apps on Windows Store

As per an analysis, there are 155,379 apps available on the Windows Store as on January 3, 2014. Out of 20 categories of Apps, available at the Windows Store, the highest number of apps, 24,003, are...

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Windows 8 and 8.1 holds 10.58% of total market share with Windows XP and 7...

Windows 8 and its update, Windows 8.1, held a total of 10.58% of total market share during the month of January 2014. Windows 8 has been in the market for over a year which holds more share despite the...

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200 million copies of Windows 8 have been sold after 15 month, says Microsoft

Microsoft has finally unveiled the sales figures of the Windows 8, which was launched back in October 2012, that 200-million copies of Windows 8 have been sold till date after 15-month of launch. Mary...

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Windows 8.1 market share increases 1.56% in April 2014, abrupt decrease in...

Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 is on the rise with a total combined market share of 12.24% globally for the month of April 2014 which has increased 1.54% as compared to March 2014. Windows 7 has also...

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Windows 8 and 8.1 gets a combined increase of .089% in market share with XP...

Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 has got an increase in the total market share for the month of August 2014. Windows 8 and its free update, Windows 8.1’s market share has increased by 0.89% in just a month....

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Windows 8 is two years old now and Microsoft is stopping its sales, Windows...

Windows 8 turned 2 years old on October 26, 2014 which means the major Modern-UI based version of Windows and the successor of Windows 7 was launched on October 26, 2012. Windows 8 was announced by...

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Windows 8 and 8.1 gets 10.92% and 5.88% of market share with Windows 7 still...

The latest market share statistics for the month of October 2014 shows that Windows 8.1 has got a huge increase taking upto 10.92% if total PC share whereas, Windows 8 had 5.88% during the month of...

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Windows 8.1 becomes the second most popular desktop OS globally with Windows...

Windows 8.1, the free update for Windows 8 which was launched in October 2013 has now taken the second position in the run for most popular desktop OS in the world. Windows 7 which has been leading the...

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Windows 8.1 gains 1.18% market share with Windows 7 increasing and XP...

The market share statistics about desktop OS market share are here and Windows 8.1 has gained a total market share of 1.18% whereas, Windows 8 and Windows 7 has gained fraction of market share with...

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Windows 8 and 8.1 dramatically losses market share in December 2014 with...

The year 2014 has ended and new year 2015 has started but, the last month of 2014 proved to be disappointing for Microsoft where the market share of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 dropped dramatically by...

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