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Microsoft's Windows 8 Uptake Looks to Have Stalled

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Microsoft launched Windows 8 on October 26 and announced four days later that it had sold 4 million copies.  Additionally on November 27 the company said that 40 million copies had been sold.

Chitika Insights analyzed Windows based Web traffic starting from October 15 to December 13 in the US and Canada.  It determined that Windows 8 had only gotten to 2.3% of Windows traffic as of December 13 and it had leveled off since about December 5.

It is really not too surprising that Windows 8 hasn’t had higher usage since businesses are going to need to test and train its employees and I don’t think consumers are rushing out to buy a new PC.  It seems like they would prefer to keep using their existing system and buy a tablet, mainly the iPad.

Disclosure: My family and I own Apple shares.