Windows 8 conference by numbers

The launch of Windows 8 has been accompanied by a lot of figures with which Microsoft has put us in a position for what is to come. Starting with Windows 7, as of today the penultimate version of the operating system, of which 670 million licenses have been sold ; which make it, in the words of Microsoft itself, the fastest adopting operating system in history. As Steve Ballmer has said, that's 670 million computers willing to upgrade to Windows 8.

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To these must be added the more than 400 million new PCs with Windows 8 that are about to be sold according to analyst forecasts shared by Microsoft yesterday.More than 1,000 PCs are already certified to run the new system It has been installed 16 million times in 190 countries during its trial period, accumulating more than 1,240 million hours of public testing. According to Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows division, no product had ever received this level of use and external testing before its release During that time, Sinofsky and his team have written more than 650 blog pages about Windows 8 development."

Consumers will have available Complete computers starting at $300 and anyone looking for something tactile can find it starting at $499 If we want to upgrade our current Windows computers 8 will work perfectly on most of them. The boot system has been improved to the point that according to Mike Angiulo, vice president of Windows Planning, Hardware & PC Ecosystem, his Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon ultrabook boots 33% faster with the new system than with Windows 7.The optimization also extends to other parts of the system, ensuring that in Windows 8 reconnection to WiFi networks takes just 1 second, compared to the 15 seconds we are used to.

Regarding the RT version of the operating system, from Microsoft they assure that it is prepared to work with more than 420 million peripherals of all kinds, including printers, mice and keyboards. The Windows Store, through which we can purchase our applications, is available now in 231 markets and in Redmond they plan to reach 10,000 applications by the time this week is over. In addition, with Xbox Music we will have access to more than 30 million songs in streaming Without forgetting SkyDrive, which accumulates more than 11 billion photos and around 550 million documents uploaded by its more than 200 million users, who add 2 petabytes more files each month.

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