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		<title>Windows 10 Now Used By 45% Of Steam Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2016 15:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looks like Microsoft's newest OS is unequivocally a hit.]]></description>
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<p>Looks like Microsoft&#8217;s aggressive moves to drive adoption of Windows 10 &#8211; including making their newest OS free to upgrade to, as well as some questionable methods to passively update people&#8217;s computers &#8211; have paid off, because less than a year after it launched, Windows 10 is now already being used by almost half of Steam&#8217;s massive userbase.</p>
<p><a href="http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey">According to the latest statistics revealed by the company</a>, almost 45% of all PC gamers are now using Windows 10- this makes it the most used OS on Valve&#8217;s service by any metric, and it also indicates that by and large, PC gamers are upgrading to Microsoft&#8217;s new offering en masse. Windows as a whole has 96% of all PC gamers, while the remaining 4% of them are divided between Mac OS X and Linux.</p>
<p>On the whole, this should be great news for Microsoft, especially since their own UWP, Windows Store, Xbox Anywhere, and PC gaming efforts are all tied intrinsically to Windows 10- more people on Windows 10 means more of a base to market these efforts to.</p>
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		<title>Microsoft Shipped 1.6 Million Xbox Consoles Last Quarter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That includes sales of both, Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles, by the way.]]></description>
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<p>Microsoft&#8217;s financial report for the previous quarter is now out, and&#8230; it&#8217;s not exactly good news, really.</p>
<p>Xbox is doing okay overall, with 1.6 million units shipped over the three months covered in this period. That number might seem to be low, but it&#8217;s lower still- it combines the sales of Xbox 360 <em>and</em> Xbox One. This probably means that, realistically speaking, neither console sold a million units worldwide in this period, which is shockingly poor performance.</p>
<p>&#8220;Xbox Platform revenue decreased $306 million or 24%, driven by a 20% decline in console volume and lower prices of Xbox One consoles compared to the prior year. We sold 1.6 million Xbox consoles during the third quarter of fiscal year 2015 compared with 2.0 million consoles during the third quarter of fiscal year 2014,&#8221; Microsoft said.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t all bad news, however- while the Xbox may be struggling, the Surface line of tablets is finally a hit, thanks to the Surface Pro 3 consistently posting strong numbers. With the recent announcement of the Surface 3, and the strong word of mouth that it is generating, Microsoft should see its performance in that segment of the market go only up.</p>
<p>However, from a gaming perspective, it&#8217;s hard to deny that as of right now, they are in a very bad place. Even considering the best case scenario &#8211; all consoles sold were Xbox One units &#8211; and adding it to Microsoft&#8217;s 10 million shipped announcement from last December only brings the Xbox One&#8217;s lifetime shipments at 11.6 million units. That is still nowhere close to the 20 million <em>sold</em> that the PS4 had managed as of more than a month ago.</p>
<p>Hopefully, Microsoft is able to turn the tide on this console around, and turn it around soon.</p>
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