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by Jefff8 4907 days ago
'Sold' in this context means 'in the channel', as the article confirms.

It doesn't mean in the hands of consumers. It doesn't mean that cash has passed to Microsoft since most of those will have been on credit. All it means is that in an effort to show that Win 8 is not a dog, MS has pushed out 60M licences to manufacturers and retail outlets.

Not earth shattering. And you can knock off two users from that total: I bought two laptops over Christmas, yet to boot into Win 8 on either of them.