Amazon Slashes Storage Prices | Windows 8 Sales: What MS Didn't Say

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Microsoft's Windows 8 Numbers Meaningless
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Microsoft says it has sold more than 40 million Windows 8 licenses, but the information is worthless in absence of key data the company won't divulge.

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At its first developers conference, Re:Invent, Amazon features customers like Netflix and NASDAQ and disses its software firm rivals.

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