GDC 13: Microsoft's big Windows 8 development push

New developers, games and big stats OS

Microsoft revealed a plethora of impressive statistics today for Windows 8 as it makes a big push to bring more games and developres to the platform at GDC.
Speaking to Develop, Windows director of communications Christopher Flores said the computing giant has attracted a wave of developers to Windows 8, including PopCap, Glu, GameHouse and Disney, and revealed new and upcoming games such as Bejeweled Live, Samurai vs. Zombies and Temple Run Brave.

Flores also touted some impressive sale and installs stats that it hopes will attract yet more studios to develop for its platform.
He stated that 60 million Windows 8 licenses had been sold during the first two months of launch, matching the "record-setting" sales in a similar time period for Windows 7.
He added that to date, 670 million Windows 7 licenses had also been sold, and stressed that all of these users could upgrade the OS to Windows 8.

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