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Reller declined to comment on whether Microsoft would make a smaller version of its own Surface tablet.Microsoft Intune Windows 8.1 device restriction settings Microsoft is also tweaking Windows 8 to make it compatible with smaller seven and eight inch tablets, which would allow hardware makers to compete in the fastest-growing segment of the tablet market against Apple’s iPad mini, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, Google Inc’s Nexus 7 and Inc’s Kindle Fire. “Our partners (hardware makers) have to bet on volume, so that they get price breaks, and get that moving into the (retail) channel.” “We know customers like touch laptops, but they are also price sensitive,” she said. Reller hopes that new machines from firms including Lenovo, ASUS and Hewlett-Packard will change that this year. PC sales had their sharpest drop on record in the first three months of this year, plummeting 14 percent. Microsoft’s last Windows 8 sales update was in early January, when it broke 60 million, suggesting only around 40 million license sales in the last four months, well below Windows 7’s average sales rate.Ĭonsumer alienation, and the lack of affordable touch-laptops that can make full use of Windows 8, has held back computer sales, according to industry tracker IDC.

Details of the update will be released in the next few weeks.Īlthough Microsoft has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses since launch on October 26, matching Windows 7 sales three years previously, it looks unlikely that the new system will see progressively rising demand, as Windows 7 did, hitting 240 million sales in its first year. Microsoft will be rolling out an update to Windows 8, provisionally code-named ‘Windows Blue’, by the end of this year, Reller said. We are being very real about what needs to change and changing it as thoughtfully and quickly as we can”, said Tami Reller, co-head of Microsoft’s Windows unit at the company’s Redmond, Washington headquarters last week, where she announced the latest Windows sales figure, a number made public on Monday. Are there things we need to change? Absolutely. Windows 8 is the first Microsoft operating system primarily designed for touch commands, but it has failed to capture consumers’ imaginations or make a dent in a tablet market dominated by Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics. Guests are silhouetted at the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York, October 25, 2012.