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Windows 8 sales rate higher than Windows 7, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

| Updated Oct 30, 2012 at 01:28pm IST

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San Francisco: Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Monday sales of the company's new Windows 8 operating system, released to the public on Friday, were running at a higher rate than its last release, Windows 7.

"We're above where we were with Windows 7," Ballmer told the audience at an event launching new phones running Microsoft's phone software called Windows Phone 8.

Windows 7 is the best-selling version of Windows so far, selling more than 670 million licenses in three years since release in 2009.

Windows 8 sales rate higher than Windows 7, says Microsoft CEO

Windows 7 is the best-selling version of Windows so far, selling more than 670 million licenses in three years.

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Posted on Feb 20, 2013 at 11:05AM IST
Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000.[2] Ballmer is the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a billionaire in U.S ...

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