Microsoft announced late Tuesday that it had sold 40 million licenses of its touch-centric Windows 8 software, which Microsoft said put Windows 8 on track to be more popular than Windows 7, the company’s preceding and more traditional point-and-click operating system, which had sold 600 million licenses globally as of June 2012 but sold 60 million in its first two months of release back in 2009, as ZDNet reported.
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