Microsoft Announces First 100 Million Sales of Windows 8

Microsoft announced Monday that it had achieved 100 million sales of the newly launched Windows 8.

Microsoft revealed Monday that within six months of its launch, Windows 8 has surpassed its first 100 million sales. Microsoft's Windows 7 took the same time frame to reach its first 100 million sales as well.

"If there had been more touch devices in the market, it would have been even more," said Tami Reller, the Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft's Windows client team. That said, "our sell-through has been consistently going up," Reller added.

She expects this touch software market situation to improve by July when students are ready to go back to school and shop around for new software for their machines. By holiday season 2013, Microsoft expects there to be a full assortment of screen sizes, form factors and differently priced Windows 8 and Windows RT devices in the market, she adds.

She also said that Microsoft will be rolling out an update to Windows 8, provisionally code-named 'Windows Blue', by the end of this year. Further details of the product will be revealed in the coming week.

Although Windows 8 has reached the 100 million mark in the first six months of its launch like Windows 7, experts are skeptical about whether the demand for the new operating system will rise in the coming months or not. It is very much likely that Windows 8 will not do as well as Windows 7, which reached 240 million sales in its first year of launch.

In January, Microsoft announced that the new operating system had already sold 60 million licenses, which mean that there have been only 40 million sales in the last four months.