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post #11 of 116
10/30/12 at 10:31am
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20$ for the upgrade from 7... who wouldn't want to buy that? The OS is perfectly fine and I am enjoying it.

People who are too stubborn to get past the whole "metro" stuff.
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10/30/12 at 10:34am
Unfortunately this has a lot to do with pricing.

Had they announced a new copy of Win 7 with SP2 slip stream for 15$ too, have a feeling sales would have been phenomenal as well.

I am pretty sure Win 7 made them a heck of a lot more money then Win 8 did at 10~40$ per purchase, considering low end Win 7 was 100$ at launch, and up to $300 for Ultimate.

Edit:
Ouch, their marketing for Win 8 alone is roughly 1.8$ Billion.
Edited by RagingCain - 10/30/12 at 10:41am
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10/30/12 at 10:38am
Awesome. Can't be good for the Windows 8 boycott club.
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10/30/12 at 10:40am
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Being a Linux only guy myself, had I had a Windows computer I would of upgraded purely because of the price. If they would have asked another $100++ for an upgrade then I would have simply laughed. But $40 to upgrade is really nothing for most people.
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10/30/12 at 10:42am
I upgraded upon the day of release. Never looked back. Windows 8 is just too good. I didnt like the beta really but this final release is so smooth and integrated. Really doubted MS on this one but they really did a good job.

Also for me this had nothing to do with price. I bought the full price 69.99 upgrade.
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10/30/12 at 10:51am
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Source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/30/3576512/windows-8-upgrade-sales-four-million
Source: http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2012/oct/29/microsoft-ceo-says-windows-8-sales-rate-higher-than-windows-7/
Looks like Windows 8 is doing quite well despite all the criticism. Plus, I wonder how many % of the 4M was $15 purchases biggrin.gif

Hehe. I got in on that wagon!

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10/30/12 at 10:55am
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Unfortunately this has a lot to do with pricing.
Had they announced a new copy of Win 7 with SP2 slip stream for 15$ too, have a feeling sales would have been phenomenal as well.
I am pretty sure Win 7 made them a heck of a lot more money then Win 8 did at 10~40$ per purchase, considering low end Win 7 was 100$ at launch, and up to $300 for Ultimate.
Edit:
Ouch, their marketing for Win 8 alone is roughly 1.8$ Billion.
Its interesting to see people posting the "Unfortunately its only because of the price" thing.

Unfortunately?

I feel quite fortunate that the first OS that MS offers for a reasonable price for me to actually buy Windows for the first time in my life is one that I like.

Besides, since when is offering customers value, and them appreciating that value by reacting via strong sales an "unfortunate" turn of events?
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10/30/12 at 10:55am
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Unfortunately this has a lot to do with pricing.
Had they announced a new copy of Win 7 with SP2 slip stream for 15$ too, have a feeling sales would have been phenomenal as well.
I am pretty sure Win 7 made them a heck of a lot more money then Win 8 did at 10~40$ per purchase, considering low end Win 7 was 100$ at launch, and up to $300 for Ultimate.
Edit:
Ouch, their marketing for Win 8 alone is roughly 1.8$ Billion.

Not much when you have $60 billion in retained earnings. They also offered Windows 7 for $50 pre-launch and free upgrades to those on Vista. Not sure what a Service Pack has to do with this, they've never charged for one.

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I think that's the big one. Those aren't private sales. Many of those sales are copies that went to OEM's such as dell and HP.
I know I didn't upgrade.

These are upgrades, not OEM sales. It mentions nothing of OEM sales.
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10/30/12 at 10:56am
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Originally Posted by zephiK View Post

Looks like Windows 8 is doing quite well despite all the criticism. Plus, I wonder how many % of the 4M was $15 purchases biggrin.gif

Not to mention copies that were sold to computer companies like HP and Dell, that have actually not been delivered yet, but rather just "sold".

Its 4 Million upgrade copies sold, This has nothing to do with OEM sales

edit, BizzareRide beat me to it
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10/30/12 at 10:58am
Even if it includes OEM sales, windows 7 had OEM sales too
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