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We will see huge numbers of shipments of Windows 8 just because of the numbers of PCs sold.
Digitimes reports that shipments of Windows RT tablets are expected to be fewer than 50,000 units each.
In unit terms, shipments of Windows Devices in 2014 totalled just under 39 million units, up by 3 million on a year ago.
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A year ago, Microsoft's net profit was inflated by $1.14 billion because of a one-time surge in revenue, related to coupon programs to cope with delays in the shipment of Windows Vista and Office 2007.
Sinofsky departed Microsoft following the completion and shipment of Windows 8, and the Surface tablet hybrid.
Part of this success is stemming from record shipments of Lumia Windows Phones - increasing from 5.6 million units to 7.4 million over the past two quarters - though this must be offset against the falling ASP (average selling price) for Nokia devices.
For shipments of desktops with Windows systems, 44percentt had Windows 98, 33percentt had Windows 95, 22percentt had either Windows NT Workstation or Windows 2000 Professional, and 1percentt had Microsoft's most recent offering to the home market, Windows Me, which was released last year.
The PC business is in a slump which has seen year-on-year shipments (and so sales) of Windows PCs fall for five (imminently, six) quarters in a row, after seven quarters where they barely grew by more than 2%.
That will also see shipments of Android devices dwarf those of Windows PCs and phones by 2017.
The next version of Windows, promised for shipment sometime this year, will feature a technology known as "plug and play".
(Editing by Edwina GibbShipments
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