All this really means is that there are 100 Million Windows 8 MACHINES gathering dust on the shelves of Worst Buy, Radio Shack, and in the vast vaults of CompUSA/Tigerdirect and NewEgg.com.
This same thing was said about Vista, that an inordinate amount of copies had been sold. Funny, I didn't notice back then that 3 in 4 systems had Vista on them, which is what that amount of sales would be reflected as. Apple iPhone 5's are only 40 Million in sales, yet 1 in 4 people have iPhones and 2 in 4 iPh9one iusers have iPhone 5s. So how can an item that sold only a mere 40 million units or copies be more visible than one that has only sold over 100 million? We should be swimming in Windows 8 disks by this account, ironic then that I have yet to see even ONE real Windows 8 "copy" anywhere I see Windows 8? Because they are not giving the actual disks with the PCs that have it installed.
But at the stores, I see rows and rows of poor unsold Windows 8 machines. This is the fallacy of Microsoft - They equate a machine that has had Windows 8 Preinstalled as a "Sale" of Windows 8. In a way it is a sale, cos HP and Acer bought bulk Windows 8 Licences. But it far from means there are actually 100 million Windows 8 Platters flopping around in our DVD drives, much less people who have BOUGHT it. I'd say, it's more around 20 million. MS Pi$$es me off with this cack, they did it BIG time with Vista to "Prove" to us it was not as much as a dog as it was and is. But in reality, you see mroe Vista machines being tossed in the garbage with Vista still in it - Working machines. This is where I get a lot of my machines, two of them were just sitting on the side of the road.