Microsoft's given its first indication of how many devices it expects to ship running Windows 8 next year. Chief executive Steve Ballmer is reported to have said 500 million "users" would "have" Windows 8 next year - he was speaking at the Seoul Digital Forum, in South Korea.
There were no more specifics, and there was no clarification on whether Ballmer was referring to units - typical in such discussions - or another metric. He did continue, however, that Windows 8 would be the "deepest, broadest and most impactful" Windows software ever created by Microsoft.
"It's really, in some senses, a dawning of the rebirth of MS Windows... It's certainly the most important piece of work we've done," the Redmond kingpin told the event.
